Chapter 128: A Monk Outside the Mountain Who Was Sanctified in the Flesh
When he killed the mysterious monk in the Thirty Miles Peach Blossom Garden, Li Mengzhou really clearly heard the murmuring in his mouth before he died, and also revealed that his name was Mo Xichou.
And according to the description of the male disciple of White Deer Peak, Mo Xichou was broken by Shen Qiubai's leg, which was in line with the mysterious monk who appeared at the foot of the slope in the Peach Blossom Paradise at that time.
If this matter has nothing to do with him, of course he can just listen to this matter as a story, but it just so happens that Mo Xichou is indeed coming to the capital, but there was a little accident in the Peach Blossom Spring, which caused Mo Xichou to die directly under Li Mengzhou's sword, of course he would not be able to appear in the capital, and where could Bai Qian and the others find his trace.
Li Mengzhou looked at Bai Qi and asked with a strange expression: "Is that Mo Xichou you talking about being wrapped in black clothes, with a slightly hoarse voice, and feeling very vicissitudes?"
Bai Qi looked at Li Mengzhou in surprise and said, "How could Senior Brother Li know? Could it be that you have seen him in the capital?"
The male disciple of White Deer Peak also looked at Li Mengzhou with some surprise, if he could be more or less sure that Mo Xichou had appeared somewhere in the capital, he would have a good chance of finding him, which was better than their aimless search.
After receiving a positive answer, Li Mengzhou exhaled lightly and said calmly: "I have indeed seen him, but he did not appear in the capital, and he will never appear in the capital." ”
Bai Qi said with some eagerness: "Why is this? Could it be that he didn't come to the capital at all? Where did Senior Brother Li meet him?"
The disciples of Bailu Peak have been tracking Mo Xichou's whereabouts, especially when he was escorting him back to the mountain gate in Qinghai Town, he was escaped, so Bailu Peak increased the scope of the search, and it was clear that he found the clue that Mo Xichou was heading towards the capital, and there should be no problems.
The only possibility is that Mo Xichou is indeed walking in the direction of the capital, but his destination is not the capital, so it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find Mo Xichou again.
Li Mengzhou looked at Bai Qi silently, and said calmly word by word: "Before the Panlong Banquet ascended the building, I met him not far from Fengjiang, and then, I killed him. ”
Bai Qi and the man both opened their mouths slightly in astonishment.
They wonder if they heard it wrong?
Although it has been confirmed that Li Mengzhou has the strength to cross the border to defeat the enemy on the fifth floor, Lu Changge, who was defeated by him, is only the first to enter the threshold of the Four Realms, but he has already stepped into the top grade of the Four Realms, even in the whole world, he is also a master.
In the process of being pursued by Bailu Peak, he even killed the great monks of the four realms, such a strong character would actually be killed by Li Mengzhou?
It's not that Bai Qi and they underestimate Li Mengzhou, but they know that Mo Xichou is powerful, and this matter is really hard for them to believe.
Bai Qian looked blankly at the black-clothed young man sitting opposite, his expression was very calm, and his attitude was very serious, although she was very suspicious of this matter in her heart, she could also sense that the other party was definitely not joking.
"Senior Brother Li...... Did you really kill Mo Xichou?"
Li Mengzhou silently took a sip of tea, the astringent feeling was full of fragrance, no wonder the tea here is so expensive, compared to the tea in those small teahouses in the outer city, it is indeed much better, although he doesn't understand tea, and he doesn't like to drink tea, but it is delicious or unpleasant, and he can still taste it.
"If what I just described can confirm Mo Xichou's identity, then I did kill him, but in the case of his realm falling a little bit. ”
Xu was aware of Bai Qian's disbelief, so Li Mengzhou added another sentence.
Although Mo Xichou fell into the realm, he was still in the threshold of the four realms, although Bai Qi still felt incredible, but thinking of Li Mengzhou's deeds of crossing the border and defeating the enemy, it seemed that he could accept it.
As for why Mo Xichou's realm fell, Bai Qi naturally thought that it was because Shen Qiubai injured him too badly, but he didn't ask any deeper.
Just asked the specific location of the Peach Blossom Garden, Bai Qi and the man got up to say goodbye to Li Mengzhou, obviously to confirm Mo Xichou's body.
Although a few days have passed, there are no wild beasts near the Peach Blossom Spring, as long as no one passes there, Mo Xichou's corpse should still be there.
With Bai Qi in front of him, Li Mengzhou's attention was once again on the door of Yue Shiting's mansion.
The carriage was still parked there.
The little guy guarding the door also walked out of the mansion gate, accompanied by Yue Shiting's figure.
Li Mengzhou couldn't see the people sitting in the carriage.
Except that his current cultivation realm fugue consciousness could not directly penetrate the obscuration, Yue Shiting, as a great cultivator at the peak of the Four Realms, once his fugue consciousness approached, it was easy to be discovered, even if he observed it in the dark, he couldn't keep an eye on it, and he would be detected after a long period of gaze.
So Li Mengzhou couldn't see the people in the carriage, and he couldn't hear what they were saying.
The only thing he could see clearly was Yue Shiting facing him.
At this moment, Yue Shiting's expression seemed to be a little solemn.
The carriage then turned away.
When the other side of the carriage turned to the teahouse, the curtain that had been lifted had not been completely lowered, and the appearance of a middle-aged man briefly caught Li Mengzhou's eyes.
It was an unfamiliar face.
If Xu Hexian was here, he would naturally be able to easily recognize that the middle-aged man sitting in the carriage was the doorman of Prince Lu's mansion, Grandmaster Song.
Yue Shiting stood in place, silently watching the carriage go away.
Li Mengzhou was also looking at Yue Shiting.
Although he looked away in a short period of time, he obviously underestimated the perception of the peak cultivator of the Four Realms, and Yue Shiting's gaze suddenly turned to the position by the window in the teahouse.
Li Mengzhou's gaze involuntarily stared at him for a moment.
I secretly screamed in my heart.
There are fewer customers in the teahouse than before, because this teahouse is diagonally opposite Yue's mansion, and the guests who often come here, including the owner of the teahouse, all know Yue Shiting, the doctor of the imperial history platform.
When Yue Shiting crossed the threshold of the teahouse, those who drank tea in twos and threes all got up with a smile and greeted each other, and the owner of the teahouse also greeted him in person, worthy of the ministers of the court who often went out to the market to purchase in person, and the relationship with the people was very friendly, just like ordinary neighbors greeting.
Even the guests in the teahouse will make a few small jokes, after all, in the entire capital, an approachable and down-to-earth official like Yue Shiting is extremely rare, and the people who are familiar with it often joke about this matter, of course, this is not a mockery, but a manifestation of the closeness of the officials and the people, and the people love Yue Shiting from the bottom of their hearts.
Yue Shiting will also reply a few words like an old friend meeting, causing the hall to laugh, and the atmosphere is very good.
Li Mengzhou felt this atmosphere, and stared directly at Yue Shiting, who came to the front.
"Lord Yue holds the huge imperial history platform, and he is also above 10,000 people in the court, but he didn't expect to be able to mingle with the people, and treat the people like his own family, which is really admirable for the kid. ”
Yue Shiting sat on the opposite side, looked at Li Mengzhou with a smile, and said: "I used to be just an ordinary ordinary ordinary citizen, I was fortunate to have the grace of Your Majesty and sat in the position of the Imperial Doctor, although I am high, but I will never forget who I am." ”
These words are very simple, but Yue Shiting was able to sit in the position of the imperial historian at an age that was not confused, not only because His Majesty appreciated it, even if His Majesty the Emperor particularly liked a person, it was impossible to directly give him a high position, Yue Shiting was able to sit firmly in this position, and he must have experienced a lot of stories.
The so-called one-step ascension to the sky is not nothing, but after all, it is very rare.
Fan Wuwei can be regarded as a person who has ascended to the sky in one step, from a small official with a sesame seed to the head of the Water Mirror Division, but he did show a very powerful means, and in a short period of time, he stabilized the Water Mirror Division, which became chaotic due to Qi Xiaoran's assistance to King Yu's rebellion, and it was difficult for people to find trouble with him.
The so-called doing his job, Fan Wuwei has the ability to sit in the position of the head of the Water Mirror Division, and he does a better job than Qi Xiaoran, the former head of the Water Mirror, so others have no excuse to make trouble.
Li Mengzhou looked deeply at Yue Shiting, who was sitting opposite, still thinking about who the person in the carriage was, and what he said to Yue Shiting.
An official like Yue Shiting, who is very popular with the people, if he wants to find out the problems that exist in him, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult, the so-called difficult to reconcile, Yue Shiting's personality has long been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the people in the capital, if there is a problem that breaks their cognition, their first reaction must be not to believe it.
And Li Mengzhou didn't doubt Yue Shiting's evidence, besides, the list that was placed in the Kui family in Yanzi Town, if it was really Yue Shiting's secret investigation against Qin Chengyi, then the two sides were not only not enemies, but could also become allies.
What Li Mengzhou wants to know most is what Yue Shiting is doing in secret, what is going on with that list, and the fact that he treats the people kindly and approachable is not worth suspecting at all, because if it is a disguise, then Yue Shiting's disguise for decades is too tiring, and even His Royal Highness King Yu, who has also been disguising, still can't pretend in the end.
Before he could clearly discover Yue Shiting's secret, it was impossible for Li Mengzhou to be honest with each other, because once he guessed wrong and exposed himself directly, it would really be an act of death.
"Although the Sword Courtyard of the Imperial Palace has been temporarily suspended for the past few days due to the Panlong Banquet, you live in Chaosi Lane in the outer city, why did you appear in the inner city today, and you happened to drink tea in this teahouse outside the gate of my mansion, as far as I know, you don't seem to like tea. ”
Yue Shiting's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said lightly.
Li Mengzhou often has a wine gourd hanging around his waist, although this is not a well-known thing, but a discerning person can also see that he is a good drinker.
Although there is no truth in the world that if you love to drink, you don't like to drink tea, but for Yue Shiting, Li Mengzhou's appearance in the teahouse and in the teahouse outside his mansion is always a problem.
Yue Shiting has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, and the most outstanding thing is that he is very good at finding problems, even if it is really just a coincidence, but it is completely like interrogating those officials who committed crimes, staring directly at Li Mengzhou.
Li Mengzhou looked very calm in the face of Yue Shiting's inquiry, although he was a little panicked in his heart, because he didn't expect Yue Shiting to suddenly be entangled in the matter of his appearance from this teahouse, but on the surface, he was as indifferent as possible.
"I have an agreement with Senior Sister Bai Qi of Bailu Peak, because she lives in the Xianfu Inn in the inner city, so I came here, and I just happened to see the teahouse here when I drank tea in this teahouse, and the environment here is very quiet. Although I really rarely drink tea, it's not that I don't like tea, why did Lord Yue ask this?"
Li Mengzhou naturally turned the incident of meeting Bai Qi into a reason for his appearance here.
He didn't think that Yue Shiting would ask Bai Qi specifically because of this, and besides, Yue Shiting had no reason to do so.
Yue Shiting is indeed just a little confused because of the details, it is impossible to suspect anything just because Li Mengzhou happened to be drinking tea in the teahouse outside his house, even if he noticed that Li Mengzhou had looked at him in the teahouse, but in the process of drinking tea, he accidentally glimpsed things outside the teahouse, and ordinary people would subconsciously look at it.
He didn't ask Li Mengzhou what the agreement with Bai Qian was, he just smiled and said: "You and Bai Qi should have only met for the first time at the Panlong Banquet, but they already had an appointment in private, which is really interesting, and they are really young people." ”
Yue Shiting had reason to believe that it was impossible for Li Mengzhou to lie about this matter, and the confusion in his heart that was sick of duty gradually subsided.
Li Mengzhou is a disciple of the Ligong Sword Academy, and he is likely to become Dean Xue's personal disciple in the future, and Yue Shiting subconsciously doesn't think there will be anything wrong with him.
Fortunately, Li Mengzhou's state of mind was tenacious enough, otherwise Yue Shiting's casual temptation might directly mess up, allowing Yue Shiting to get a result that he didn't even expect.
This process is very tense and exciting.
This emotion is all expressed in the heart.
No matter how calm Li Mengzhou was on the surface, when he heard Yue Shiting's vaguely questioning words, he was really panicked in his heart.
He couldn't imagine what could be wrong with drinking tea in a teahouse?
He wanted to find a tavern, but the only place where he could observe Yue Shiting's mansion was this teahouse.
This is also fortunate that Yue Shiting didn't think much about it, otherwise he would have noticed such a tricky problem, and it was the most suitable thing to observe Yue's Mansion in this teahouse, and he would definitely be able to think of it.
Because the so-called appointment with Bai Qi attracted Yue Shiting's attention, listening to his obvious ridicule, Li Mengzhou secretly exhaled and did not refute.
Although it was only a brief contact, Yue Shiting was indeed an extremely cautious person, and it was difficult for any small movement to escape his eyes.
Li Mengzhou felt a little tired.
It would be very difficult to get in touch with Yue Shiting and explore the matter of that list.
If he is a little careless, he will be caught by the horse's feet, and he will definitely be able to clearly penetrate his ulterior intentions.
Li Mengzhou could only try to make himself completely relaxed, and in the face of Yue Shiting's ridicule, he only smiled.
Yue Shiting silently poured himself a cup of tea, tasted the aftertaste of the tea, and said: "The incident that happened in the palace, presumably you are also very clear about leaving the palace sword courtyard, Your Majesty intends to ask Dean Xue for help, you disciples, you must also be conscientious, strictly guard against the south city gate, and cannot let go of any suspicious people." ”
After Li Mengzhou finished the Panlong banquet, he did not return to the mountain gate, and the matter in the palace was also learned from Qingkou, he really didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor actually invited the teacher out of the mountain.
It seems that the murderer hidden in the palace is really not an ordinary person, and he needs to be captured by the big things of the Five Realms in person.
Now that there is a new topic, Li Mengzhou has no reason to remain silent, he said with some confusion: "Although I am not qualified to enter the palace, it is also generally clear that there must be many powerful cultivators in the palace, and there is even no shortage of great cultivators who have crossed the five realms, who is the murderer, who can come and go freely in the palace?"
Yue Shiting said calmly: "In addition to the small group categories of the Three Sects and Star Picking, as well as your sword cultivators and array magicians, there is also a seventh cultivation faction, which is the monks outside the mountain who used to rise against the wind in the chaotic era of the Demon Swinging Period. ”
"They don't need to visualize the aura of heaven and earth, but directly plunder the aura of other cultivators, so that they can use it to refine themselves and reach the realm of physical sanctification. ”
"They have an incomparably strong physique, and they can forcibly plunder the origin of the Qi Sea of the world's cultivators, if it weren't for the fact that they broke through the existence of the Five Realms during the Demon Swing Period, and were suppressed by the combined forces of the world's powers, this world would have changed its appearance a long time ago. ”
The cultivation factions in the world, the three religions are orthodox, even if they are those wild cultivators, who have not undergone special education in magic, but they are actually practicing the methods of the three religions, but they cannot be called real monks of the three religions, because they have no access to the real three religions.
In addition to the small number of wandering wild masters who choose to retreat into the world, the wild cultivators are also divided into two types, one is the disciples who came out of the serious cultivation mountain gate and became mountain monks for various reasons, and the other is the scattered monks who are not qualified enough and do not want to waste the world and can only practice small tricks that do not get started.
In the final analysis, they are all under the rule of the three sects, and they can also be classified into the three religions in the cultivation faction, but they are not recognized on the surface.
The Star Picking Monk is a new way of practice, and although it cannot compete with the entrenched monks of the three religions, it has also become a new faction.
The sword sect lineage was also differentiated from the three sects, and they established their kendo orthodoxy with facts and strong strength.
The array magicians who gradually died out in the world and some small sects of cultivation from the side sects were collectively referred to as one category, and there was no serious name.
These are the six major factions in the world of cultivation.
The seventh type is the monks outside the mountain.
It is also a group of people who have separated from the orthodoxy of the three religions in the quiet land of mountains and seas, and wantonly plunders the aura between heaven and earth in a way that is almost demonic, and is not tolerated by the righteous path, and is definitely the biggest enemy of the righteous path in the world.
Li Mengzhou had also learned about the existence of monks outside the mountain in various cultivation classics, but his understanding of monks outside the mountain was very one-sided, and he was even more confused, how could Yue Shiting answer the question of talking about monks outside the mountain.