Chapter 17: All the Way West
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what do you say?" said the county lord of Ningning.
"To tell you the truth, when I saw this little brother, I felt quite affectionate in my heart. He is peaceful, and he is by no means a traitor. We might as well rest here for two days and wait for his injuries to improve a little before we hit the road. ”
"If he never wakes up, find a town on the road to settle him, leave Doctor Liu and a few followers to take care of him, and then make peace with us when he recovers, what do you think?" the third prince asked.
"Of course I'm fine, but can we have the time?"
"We set off with a relaxed itinerary so that there would be no surprises on the way. It doesn't matter if we wait for two days, but after we settle him down, we'll work harder and speed up. ”
"Everything is according to the words of the royal brother. ”
In this way, after disembarking, the group stayed for two days at the post station near the pier. Although Shi Zhiyi still didn't wake up, after Dr. Liu's rejuvenation skill, the original dark purple palm print on his back had faded a lot, and the injuries to his viscera had stabilized.
The shore of the river to the west, gradually entering the boundary of Puzhou. Along the way, the terrain gradually rises and the climate becomes drier. Although it was early summer, there was not much rain here, and the cars and horses walked by on the road, raising clouds of dust.
The procession on the road consisted of about one hundred and fifty or sixty people, including two four-drawn luxury carts, followed by more than a dozen wagons full of brocade boxes and other items pulled by pack rhinos.
The pack rhinoceros is a common herbivorous animal for transport, with a gentle temperament, great strength, and the ability to travel as fast as ordinary horse-drawn carts, making it an excellent choice for transporting livestock.
The only disadvantage may be that the food is huge, an adult pack rhino can eat hundreds of catties of mixed feed made of forage and soybean cake a day in the case of long-distance travel, and ordinary people generally cannot afford to raise it.
Cost was not a primary consideration for the gentry, the large chambers of commerce, and the military, so it was essential to carry the rhino in these places.
In addition, more than 100 knights in light armor faintly took the cart as the center, guarding the front and rear, and more than 10 ordinary carriages, sitting on the servants and attendants, fell at the back of the team.
At this time, Shi Zhiyi was lying in front of a four-horse luxury car. The interior of the car was covered with several layers of thick cotton mattresses to minimize the impact of wheel bumps on him.
This carriage naturally belonged to the three princes, but after he saw Shi Zhiyi, he didn't know why, he felt very cordial, and considering that he was seriously injured, he found a reason, under the pretext that the car was stuffy, and rode forward with the guards, and gave the carriage to Shi Zhiyi to ride.
At this time, seven or eight days have passed since the night of Shi Zhiyi's injury, and under the care of Dr. Liu and the care of the brother and sister, the injury has improved significantly, and he finally came to his senses on this day.
When Shi Zhiyi opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the roof of the carriage carved with dragons and phoenixes, and then he saw a delicate and well-behaved face. The girl was feeding him rock sugar white fungus lotus seed soup, and when she saw him suddenly open her eyes, she was startled, and a few drops of soup spilled from the porcelain cup in her hand. The girl was stunned, lowered her head and said, "Childe, are you awake?" ”
After a while, I heard a pleasant woman's shout from outside the car: "Brother Huang, Brother Huang, he's awake, he's awake!" Before the words fell, the curtain of the car had been lifted, the fragrant wind was blowing, and a pretty-looking, disgusted and happy girl rushed in, it was the county lord of Yining who found Shi Zhiyi on the giant boat that day.
Shi Zhiyi wanted to get up, and the county lord of Yi Ning hurriedly stopped: "Don't get up, you are too seriously injured, and now the injury of the viscera has just improved, and the muscles and bones are far from recovering." At this time, the third prince also leaned into the carriage, but fortunately, the interior of the carriage was quite large, and the three of them did not feel crowded at all inside.
Shi Zhiyi knew that these two must be his life-saving benefactors, so he hurriedly asked for names. It turned out that this gentle man was Yu Zhongqian, the third son of the current emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the pretty girl was Yu Yining, the sister of his mother's compatriot. The two went north from Kyoto to Fu's house in Puzhou, northwest to give Fu Linyue Fu's 80th birthday.
The Fu family, inherited for four or five thousand years, is located in Puzhou, northwest China, its sphere of influence is adjacent to the Jade Belt Mountains in the north, the upper reaches of the Forget Worry River in the south, bordering Yongzhou, the east to the shore of the river, and the west side is next to the territory of the Sha Qi people, which is one of the eight great families of the Great Jin Dynasty today.
Fu Linyue and Old Man Fu himself are recognized as the number one master of the human race today, whether it is above the court or among the people of Puzhou, he has a very high reputation.
Therefore, his 80th birthday has also been valued by many forces, including several other great families, Yu Zhongqian brother and sister came on behalf of the royal Yu family, set off from Kyoto more than a month ago, and happened to save the dying Shi Zhiyi when he docked near Jiayu Wharf.
Today's Great Jin Dynasty, there are eight inheritance of thousands of years, and there has been at least one god-level powerhouse in history, which is the current royal family - the Yu family, the Yuzhou Daxi family, the Yongzhou Beigong family, the Fanzhou Xu family, the Puzhou Fu family, the Hailing Prefecture Luqiu family, and the East China Sea Wulai Island Jian family and Yunqi City Shi family.
Among them, the Yu family, the Daxi family, the Beigong family and the Xu family have all been inherited for more than 10,000 years, and there has been more than one god-level powerhouse in history, and the rise of the Shi family in Yunqi City is the shortest, and the first city lord of Yunqi City and the ancestor of the Shi family, Shi Xuanlai, is also the only one in the Shi family and the last god-level powerhouse of the human race so far.
After the three princes, Yu Zhongqian, and his brother and sister introduced themselves, Shi Zhiyi did not hide his origins, both of them were children of a family, and they were of similar age, so they naturally became acquainted quickly.
The two asked about the reason for Shi Zhiyi's injury, and Shi Zhiyi actually didn't know the identity of the master who attacked him that night, and only said that he went out with his friends to experience an accident and encountered an accident, but he didn't even see the face of the person who did it.
Shi Zhiyi vaguely guessed that the mysterious master who pounced on him like a giant eagle should be the owner of the painting boat, and his act of stealing the painting boat happened to be seen by him before he shot angrily. Thinking of the painting boat, and thinking of the tower-like man Helian Mingzhi, the two had just experienced life and death together but immediately separated, and they couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
But when he pushed the boat out that night, Helian Mingzhi's breathing had calmed down, and he must have woken up soon, and the boat was out of the range of the whirlpool, so there should be no danger.
As for the reason why he inexplicably entered the realm of dawn, Shi Zhiyi was puzzled.
It should be that some of his actions inadvertently activated the sword Gu altar, causing the Qingshao Sword to absorb all the essence and energy contained in the nearly one million blades in the cave space in an instant, and at the same time feed back to the person holding the sword, forcibly pushing him into the realm of dawn with a huge amount of energy.
Sun Weiqing counted on the mysterious altar to become his own and even the support of Helian Jieya's consecration, so the energy it contained was definitely more than what he absorbed. Limited by the realm, the energy he absorbed was only an insignificant fraction of the huge formation, and the rest should have become Qing Shao's belly.
What did he do to activate the Sword Gu Altar that had not been triggered for thousands or even tens of thousands of years?In the ten years since Sun Weiqing discovered the altar, he should have tried various measures, why had he not been able to discover the secret of how to activate the altar?
After thinking about it for a long time without any results, Shi Zhiyi had no choice but to attribute it to the ancestral Qingshao Sword of the Shi family.