Chapter 15: The Dervishe
The establishment of the Star Picking Tower was originally to suppress the underground spiritual veins and prevent the leakage of spiritual energy.
The Divine Breath smashed into a large crater, and the terrain became low-lying and the edges were raised. The building is three stories high, just level with the upper palace on the side.
The palace on the edge of the pit collapsed, and when it was rebuilt, it grew bigger and bigger the closer it got to the star-picking tower, concealing the fact that the ground was lowered.
In addition, a labyrinth-like corridor is set up around, and a wall of the palace is erected.
It's hard to spot unless you get closer.
Sensing the entry of a powerful breath, Chu Fan gasped and was terrified.
The core of the inner palace, behind the palace wall more than three meters high, outside the star picking tower, is a circular blue brick road up to six meters wide.
The road with a total length of more than 120 meters is always patrolled by 12 internal guards.
They were divided into groups of three, dividing the great circle of 360 degrees into equal quarters, and each group could see the back of the group in front of them.
Three shifts, a total of thirty-six bronze fetal realm masters, twelve hours a day non-stop patrol without dead ends, to ensure that a fly can not escape.
But that powerful aura did not hide, but walked around the blue brick ring road.
The guards walked past the man in circles and circles, but they turned a blind eye.
Can that guy be invisible? Or did he cast a spell?
The Great Divine Stick of Chu restrained the dangerous idea of going out of the Star Picking Tower to find out.
Yunmeng is stormy, he is the only big killer, and he can't be easily exposed.
Fortunately, these days, Liu Yatou didn't live in the dormitory, and studied together in the building. Tong Jin also stayed behind to heal and provide guidance to the two. He used to be Wei Feng's child servant and was well-informed.
It was Chu Fan's idea to let the internal guards, secret guards, and janissaries take turns to enter the Star Picking Tower to cultivate. The spiritual vein underground is very small, and it will dissipate in fifty or sixty years. The protection like its treasure is not as practical as letting people improve.
Groups of immortal masters broke into the palace unscrupulously, if they weren't afraid of revealing their identities, they would have captured Liu Ruofei and tortured them. In their eyes, the princess of the prison country is no different from cattle and sheep, and has no dignity at all.
If the situation is allowed to deteriorate, there is no need to wait for the Li army to besiege the city in three months, and Yunmeng will collapse first. A few dozen immortal masters are enough to destroy a medium-sized country, let alone a small city?
So yesterday afternoon, the immortal masters finally got the secret news. Yunmeng planned to cede the Golden Turtle Ferry to the Li Kingdom, and the divine breath was dedicated to Di Suizi, and the mission set off the next day.
Sure enough, no one visited the palace last night.
Today, they go out of the city to hunt.
The prey is the mission that escorts the Divine Breath, and the hunting ground is a hill located between Yunmeng City and the Golden Turtle Crossing, ten miles of slope.
Yunmeng, as the world's first Daze, is vast. Rivers and harbors are as dense as spider webs, and lakes and ditches are dotted around. There are no tall mountains in the territory, and the plains are unobstructed, only a hill that stretches for ten miles.
In order to cooperate with this group of "shameless" immortal masters, Chu Fan and Liu Yatou designed the itinerary very intimately.
Before dusk, the mission will arrive at Jinguidu to be protected by 2,000 garrisons, and the next day it will cross the Tianhe River. On the other side of the Tongtian River, there were originally six counties of Yunmeng, which now belong to the country of Li.
Unless the immortal masters want to rush to camp at night, unless they want to break ground on the territory of Li Guo, they can only choose to make a move in Shilipo.
The mission was led by Liu Guangdi, the doctor of the Ziguang Pavilion, and in addition to a cart of gold, silver and jewelry, there was also a letter written by Liu Ruofei, the princess of Yunmeng Prison Kingdom, to King Li. expressed the good wish of forming an alliance, and proposed to cede the important town of Jinguidu, and pay a number of annual tribute coins......
Yunmeng lost eight counties, and at present, it is only separated from Li Guo by the Tianhe moat. Once the Golden Turtle is ceded, it is equivalent to exposing the hinterland to the knife and allowing it to be slaughtered, and the sincerity is not profound.
The territory of Li is vast, and it borders Xu and Zeng at the northeast ends of Yunmengze to the west. The Yunmeng City before Daze was like a nail stuck there, and anyone in charge would get rid of it quickly.
There is no righteous war in the country.
It's not about morality, it's about strategy.
Liu Ruofei knew that Li Hou must have scoffed at this proposal. Everyone in the world can see that the day when Yunmeng dies will be the time when Li Hou becomes king. It is estimated that King Li will agree to do anything that slows down the pace of the domineering uncle's ascension to the throne, but unfortunately his words are invalid.
It's good to lay another wedge in their dislikes.
The only thing that can kill this war is Di Suizi.
National teachers generally do not interfere in state affairs.
Just as a shepherd fights with a flock, he doesn't care which sheep is the leader.
Unless the son of the earth became interested in the divine breath......
Yamaguchi, the words floated out one after another.
"Ruofei, has the mission made arrangements, don't let them be innocently buried with them. ”
Liu Guangdi only knew how to send a letter to the country, but he didn't know that the letter contained divine breath. I gave the secret order, and he would know how to do it. Twenty young envoys were selected from among the guards to let them see the outside world. If you are trapped in a corner of Yunmeng, lonely and unheard, it will be difficult to achieve success after all. ”
"Well, Shilipo will become a Shura field, and it will be difficult for those who are close to escape from it, and the faster they go, the better. Those who dare to take advantage of the fire are all the Enlightened Light Realm Immortal Masters, and there are more than twenty Spiritual Realms who stay in Cloud Dream City and dare not watch the excitement, which is always a big trouble. Teacher Tong can't suppress it alone, I'll clean it up when I come back......"
"Brother Fan, can you not go to Shilipo?"
Liu Ruofei raised her face, half of her white face was bathed in sunlight, half hidden in shadows, and her eyes were full of melancholy.
During this period of time, she got along with Chu Fan day and night, and her sense of mystery diminished day by day, but her intimacy multiplied day by day. One moment I believe that he is omnipotent, and the other moment I care, and then I am chaotic, and I suffer from gains and losses.
For Yunmeng, the Divine Breath is an extremely dangerous hot potato, like a young child walking in the downtown with gold in his arms.
The only way is to send it away publicly.
But it was impossible for Chu Fan to hand it over.
What to do?
Then let the outside world know that Yunmeng offered his divine breath to Di Suizi to form an alliance with Li Guo, but was robbed by a monk on the way. Anyway, the purpose of that group of immortal masters to come to Yunmeng was originally to snatch the divine breath, and they were not wronged.
The alliance is just a gimmick to vaporize the Divine Breath from the world.
Ten miles of slope put a bloody masked feast, dozens of immortal masters fought fiercely, and only one champion was produced.
And this champion is impossible to leave a living mouth on the scene and leak the news that he has grabbed his breath.
Chu Fan planned to take the stage at the last minute and clean up the mess......
The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.
The goshawk circled, and the boy held the bow.
Who wins and who loses, God knows!
Seeing that Liu Ruofei was worried, Chu Fan smiled and said:
"No, I have to go, you don't understand. Hahaha...... At the end of the show, how can the director not stand on the stage for a curtain call?"
Liu Ruofei showed a puzzled look, and said that the Chu Shenstick who had leaked his mouth hurriedly made up for it, and said:
"In the end, the one who won the divine breath was at least the Enlightened Upper Realm Immortal Master, or even the Fusion God Realm. If he finds out that the divine breath he snatched with Fei Jiuniu's strength is a fake, and he still doesn't vent his anger in Yunmeng? ”
Liu Ruofei was still not at ease, and changed from a stern princess to a broken mouth of the little sister next door, muttering:
"Then let him snatch it! Your divine breath is so realistic, it looks like a treasure, who knows if it's true or not? Anyway, few immortal masters know what a real divine breath should look like...... Besides, he didn't have time to verify the authenticity after robbing it, and he was afraid to chase after him, so he had to find a remote place to hide......"
Chu Fan saw that she was entangled, and hurriedly diverted the topic.
"That doesn't work, we're going to live in fear all the time. Tasteless food, restless sleep, worried that a killing star will suddenly appear one day...... Hey, don't change your plan, or you'll always be on paper...... I think that there are hundreds of mages and green forests gathered in Yunmeng City, and they want to make a windfall and make a fortune at the time of great calamity, so they have to mobilize the guards to suppress them. Those teenagers are too young to just bury their heads in cultivation, they also need to go through the baptism of life and death...... Freedom, glory, wealth, no one will give it away, all rely on their own fight to fight for ......"
Liu Ruofei snorted, looked at him strangely, and said in her heart, aren't you also a teenager?
Hearing him mention the hundred young guards, he suddenly remembered something again, and asked curiously: "You appeared in front of them in the Star Picking Tower that day, why did you turn around slowly first?"
"Ah, this one......"
Chu Fan couldn't explain that this was a slow-motion effect, and said perfunctorily:
"Aggravate their sense of mystery, solemnity, ritual...... Which big guy did you see on the stage, and it was the monkey who jumped out in a hurry?"
Liu Ruofei laughed out loud and said angrily:
"You're just a monkey jumping out of a hurry, and you're bare-chested...... Honestly, that night in front of the tomb mountain in Yangwu County, you drew a Tai Chi Yin and Yang diagram talisman in the air, what did you use? Hehe, Chunhua also said at the time that it was a leprosy dog...... What's that, enclosure ......"
Chu Shen's expression was like swallowing a rotten egg, and he replied depressedly:
"Ah, what do you say...... Forgot. ”
"No, you have to say ......"
Liu Ruofei pursed her lips and looked coquettish, if it weren't for the inconvenience of riding on a horse, I was afraid that she would have to pounce and shake Chu Fan's arm.
"Hmph, if you don't say it, I'll just ...... it"
Seeing her make a "threat" with a straight face, Chu Dashen's head suddenly became as big as a fight.
When girls are acquainted, how can they turn from little white rabbits to little tigresses? Chu Ling is like this, Liu Ruofei is like this, Yan Wan'er doesn't know...... Only Li Su is gentle and gentle. But she is old, is she a little sister or a little sister? Alas, it is really not easy for Liu Yatou, her small shoulders are against the lives of 500,000 people, and it is difficult to have a happy moment.
Chu Fan knew that he might be sad if he didn't confess today, so he coughed lightly twice, searched for dry intestines, and said:
"Ah, that...... Kindness is like water, and virtue is loaded...... The body is like a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror...... Tai Chi gives birth to two yi, two yi gives birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip...... Liangyi is yin and yang, heaven and earth, odd and even, rigid and soft, Xuanhuang, Qiankun, and spring and autumn...... At the beginning of the two instruments, the sky is clear and turbid, and people are fooling around in the middle......"
"What are you talking about?"
"I mean, that night I used the power of the wilderness to force the good out of the Bodhi tree, nourishing all things without fighting for merit, and my pride soared into the sky......"
"Speak human words!"
"Pee. ”
Oh...... Liu Ruofei was so ashamed that she quickly lowered her head, covered her crimson face with her left palm, and raised the horsewhip with her right hand.
Chu Shenzhu lowered his upper body, bared his teeth and grinned, screaming in pain.
Under the shade of a tree more than a dozen feet away, the two swordsmen pretended not to see it, pursed their lips and snickered.
The whip with gold wire inlaid with red tassels gently landed on Chu Fan's back, caressing it. It's not like punishment, but it seems that the girl is coquettish, chewing red mushrooms, and smiling at her lover.
Liu Ruofei lightly whipped three times, her slender hand hung down weakly, and she muttered to herself:
"If Chunhua knew that she guessed correctly, she would have to laugh for three days and three nights......"
Chu Fan sat up straight again, silent, and looked away.
The convoy of the mission was more than seven miles away from the city, and it looked like a wriggling earthworm on a ridge.
A bald, ragged monk exited the city gates.
Yunmeng is a big city and extremely prosperous. At this time of the morning, there are a lot of people coming and going. Because of the special situation, the inventory of the gatekeepers is also relatively strict.
But, it seems, no one has seen the ascetic, this ghost walking in the sun......
As the monk approached, a horse pulling the cart was frightened and avoided the side, causing the carriage to tilt. A tall bronze tripod in the carriage suddenly toppled over, and he was about to fall down and break the leg of the passerby's armor.
The monk's leaky sleeve waved, and the half-fallen copper tripod was pushed back into the car by an invisible palm.
Passerby A jumped to the side in surprise and looked at the back of the car in amazement. The man who drove the car cursed loudly, and the pedestrian B behind the car kept complaining, not knowing that there was a strange monk walking by nearby.
After going out of the city, pedestrians are scarce. The monk stopped, grinned and showed a mouthful of white teeth, and waved his hand at Chu Fan and Liu Ruofei from afar. The sleeves of his net-like coat slipped off, revealing his withered arms.
Chu Fan's eyes were frozen, and his brows furrowed.
Why is this demon monk waving his hand? He has no true qi, and he has no strength, so he will not be noticed.
Liu Ruofei looked at him along the line of sight, pursed the corners of her lips, and said:
"Hmph, dervishe. He thinks he is a messenger who walks in the mortal world and rejects the temptation of the flesh. Even if you do penance, you don't take a bath, you don't wash your face, you don't brush your teeth, you don't change your clothes. The Tsing Yi faction is a little embarrassed, and the Tianyi faction is naked, to show that they are far away from dirt and troubles, and the red stripes come, and the red stripes go to ......"
Oh, can the willow girl see it?
Chu Fan understood.
The world is bizarre.
The eye can't see anything, only light.
It is the brain that converts the stimuli produced by light signals into comprehensible patterns.
The monk is not really invisible, but he just casts a spell to make the people around him turn a blind eye, and his mana does not affect Liu Ruofei from a distance of three miles.
There is no doubt that he is the largest yellow finch to participate in the masked feast to date.
But it doesn't necessarily qualify for the Divine Breath.
God knows if there are eagles circling in Shilipo.
Regarding the question of taking a bath, Chu Fan smiled awkwardly.
The body is very clean, and it is washed only three times in ten days. It seems that in order to avoid strange eyes in the future, you still need to be diligent. The feeling of water rushing over the skin is very comfortable......