Chapter 59: Interrogation and Solicitation
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Zhang Lu reached out and touched the cut surface of the Tong Mountain that was cut by the sword qi, and suddenly, an image fell into his mind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In a trance, he saw a tall figure, holding a two-handed sword and jumping up in the air, and then the sword qi came down from top to bottom, slashing down obliquely with the momentum of endless wind and thunder. Although it was only a mutilated image, it was a remnant of the thought in the sword marks, but the power of this earth-shattering blow still made Zhang Lu tremble, and he had goosebumps all over his body, and cold sweat was pouring out of his back......
He instinctively felt that even if he was a master at the peak of the No Man's Realm, it would not be difficult to cut such a sword, but if he wanted to condense such a prominent momentum, he might not be able to do it, right?
But why did the heavens and demons run to this fragmented world to open the mountain? Was it a simple trick, or was there something in the mountain that he hoped to cut off? Zhang Lu involuntarily stroked the sword marks in the dim environment, step by step, and walked deeper into the mountain gap.
The highest point of this sword mark is more than 100 zhang above the ground, just cutting off the root of the mountain, and it is only more than half a foot deep into the ground. The gap was very narrow near the ground, and Zhang Lu had to lean sideways to be able to barely squeeze in. He spread his hands on the left and right, rubbing the two different facets, the tentacles were extremely smooth, no matter how many layers the mountain stone contained, it seemed that it could not affect the sword qi in the slightest—this must be something that an ordinary soldier can do.
When his hands touched, the image of chopping the mountain came into his mind from different angles, but if he didn't think about it, the image seemed to be extremely clear, and if he wanted to be firmly engraved in his heart, the image instantly faded. It's as if I've just woken up from a nightmare, with broken images still in my mind, and terrifying memories still lingering in my heart, but if you want to catch these images and memories, it's like fishing for the moon in the water, and you can only catch some illusory auspicious feathers.
The more trance-like, the more eager he was, Zhang Lu involuntarily went deeper and deeper, farther and farther. Suddenly, he noticed that the touch of his left hand was no longer smooth, as if he had touched something rough and inexplicably bumpy buried in the mountain wall.
Suddenly I woke up, but I realized that there was darkness all around me - even if I had penetrated deep into the mountain wall, it was difficult for the dim light from the outside world to cast it. Zhang Lu covered his hands with the roughness, and when he probed carefully, he found that the object was very large, and formed an acute angle at the downward end. He reached into his bosom and felt for the fire sickle to strike, and the fire was extinguished in a flash, and he finally got a glimpse of the whole thing.
At first impression, it was a piece of dead wood, with rough bark, buried diagonally in the rock wall, and only exposed to the stone was several inches thick, more than a zhang wide, with a pointed lower part, and the upper part extended to an invisible height. But when the fire was extinguished, Zhang Lu continued to touch the roughness, but found that the unevenness and marks on it were regular, and theoretically, the skin of a tree would never show such a strict form.
This is not a tree, this is an animal skin, and the rough protrusions are its armor!
Is this what the swordsman really wants to slash? How huge is its body? Countless speculations flashed through Zhang Lu's mind in an instant, but soon one thought overrode all thoughts—this kind of Lin armor, its shape and arrangement, I have seen before!
For example, if you listen to a piece of music and read a book, if you are impressed enough, then when you think back to the book, the music you heard at that time will echo in your ears, and when you recall the music, the words in that book will also come to mind. And when Zhang Lu was touching this roughness and suddenly realized that he had seen it, there seemed to be a voice in his heart:
"You are, ours, hope. ”
This is the dragon! the kind of dragon I've ever seen next to the Heavenly Pillar of the Brahma Realm!
When he finally realized this, Zhang Lu felt that his eyes suddenly brightened-
"What's wrong with you?" Feng Heran's hand shook in front of his eyes, "Is it evil?"
Zhang Lu took a big breath, looked left and right, and couldn't help but be shocked: "Let's ...... How did you come back?"
"Presumably, the ten-day period has arrived, and of course I will return to Tianyuan. ”
"No......" Zhang Lu's eyes widened, "Ten days in the Fulu world is so short?!"
Tang Liyu frowned and said, "Actually, it's not short...... Although there is no distinction between day and night, and there is no way to judge the date, according to my estimate, one day of Fulu should be equivalent to two days and nights in my Tianyuan—ah yes, I forgot to call you Brother Zhang to come over for dinner. Where have you gone, haven't you eaten or drunk for the past ten days?"
Zhang Lu sighed for a while, and then he felt that his mouth was dry, his abdomen was empty, and even his stomach was slightly cramped - "I, I'm really outside the fugue......"
I don't know if it is true that the speed of time is different from that of the outside world in that mountain gap, or if I tried my best to grasp the little image left when I touched the sword marks, causing my mind to not belong, so that I completely misjudged the speed of time passing as if I was in a dream...... But all in all, he didn't seem to be able to figure out the essence of any master's sword from that sword mark, but he wasted the cultivation opportunity given by the Tai Mad Demon in vain.
Zhang Lu was angry and remorseful, gritted his teeth and "creaked", and his companions all looked at him in astonishment - "Brother Zhang, you are ......"
"I'm hungry! Quick, give me something to eat...... No, give me some water to drink!"
Zhang Lu was desperately trying to replenish his water as if he was starving, and the three companions exchanged their cultivation experiences with each other, and it seemed that they had made great progress. In the end, they looked at Zhang Lu again, and Feng suddenly asked, "Have you practiced the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique of this sect?" Zhang Lu twitched the corners of his mouth, and said word by word: "I haven't had time to read a word yet!"
At that moment, he was about to tell his own experience, and Feng shrugged his shoulders: "I told you not to be ambitious...... Li Yanchao said: "Even if the master only leaves a sword mark, it will contain a powerful aura, Zhang Lu, you are trapped in this aura, and you don't know that time flies, this is not a strange thing." But if you don't get a glimpse of it, it would be too wasteful. ”
Zhang Lu held his head in his hands and said with a bitter face: "Don't say it anymore...... I want to ...... quietly."
When they went to the Furui World to cultivate, it was the same as transferring from the Xuanqi Realm to the Other Realm to perform a mission, coming and going suddenly, and during this time of leaving, the time in the Tianyuan World seemed to stop. Therefore, after the return, until Zhang Lu finished replenishing the drinking water and pouring the bitter water, the counting and distribution work in the cave was far from complete. The three companions were still unsatisfied, so they looked for a suitable place to continue their cultivation on this isolated island, while Zhang Lu had no choice but to shrink under a big tree and open the book "Thirteen Swords of Flowing Clouds" for the first time.
The Liuyun Sword Technique is said to have been created by the ancestor of the Liuyun Sect 1,700 years ago, and it is also a subtle sword technique that ranks among the top in the Heavenly Wall World. However, history is developing, society is progressing, and science and technology are ...... Martial arts have also improved from generation to generation, and the people of the Liuyun Sect in the past generations, even including many masters who have entered the no-man's land, will go back and re-study and review this set of ancestral swordsmanship, and revise many details. It's just that even if the content of these revisions is passed on to the sect, even if the wind is amazing, it will not dare to leak it lightly.
To put it bluntly, the book in Zhang Lu's hand really wants to return to the mainland, as long as he is willing to pay a high price, he can always find it-maybe Liuyun Sect himself is willing to copy it and sell it.
It is called "Thirteen Swords", of course, there are a total of thirteen moves, but each move has no less than ten variations, and it still feels very complicated to read through. Fortunately, Zhang Lu read very quickly, ten lines at a glance, and it didn't take much time to basically chew it through, so he put away the book, took out the "spring breeze in the electric light and shadow", and prepared to start the trial.
But just after the first move, before he practiced various changes, he heard Tang Liyu beckoning from a distance. It turned out that the treasures in the cave had been basically counted, and how to divide them into four equal parts, and the accounting personnel of their own sects and prefectures went to talk about each other, and several elders could let go of their hands, so they turned back to the sea ship one after another. As soon as the two selfless realm masters of the Middle East Li came down, they urgently summoned Zhang Lu to inquire in detail about what happened in the valley of Yushan that day.
Zhang Lu boarded the ship and entered a dark cabin as if he was being escorted, and saw that there were not only two Dongli masters sitting on it, but also one person from each of the other three families who came to observe. He didn't feel like he was being questioned, he was simply being judged, and because of his low rank and shallow realm, he didn't even give him a stool, so he could only stand and reply.
The "interrogator" first asked him to describe the general course of events, and then took the trouble to cross-examine every detail. In fact, from the lucky escape of the Yi Ao climbed out of the valley, to the appearance of the mocking wind, and then to Zhang Lu's crossing, this period of time is not long, and before that, the Yi Ao has also explained every link many times, Zhang Lu really can't give more details to add.
Of course, it is impossible for the "interrogator" to find more clues from Zhang Lu's confession......
It took two meals for the group of selfless realm masters to finally let Zhang Lu leave. Zhang Lu was under the low eaves and had to bow his head, but in his heart, he scolded the whole Dongli Mansion and the ancestors of the Li family. Before leaving the cabin, the elder of the Tang Mansion who came to listen—that is, the seventh uncle Tang Shizhang mentioned by Tang Liyu—took two steps forward, stretched out his hand to pat Zhang Lu's shoulder, and whispered comfortingly: "Li Gong Shijie's whereabouts are still unknown, and the whole mansion is anxious, so I have a harsh attitude towards you, I hope you can understand their feelings." ”
Zhang Lu smiled reluctantly and nodded. He said in his heart that if I hadn't taken this into consideration, even if I wasn't their opponent, I would have wanted to flip the table, and it was a big deal to go out of Dongli, and there was a great deal of treasure hunting, could you still kill me on the spot? But this shouldn't be the people of your Tang family...... If the two old men of Dongli had mentioned it afterwards, how much anger I had would have gone.
It seems that Li Yanchao is right, this Dongli, I really can't stay any longer!
He didn't even want to spend the night on the ship—he was used to sleeping on the island anyway—and when he got out of the cabin, he went straight to the side of the ship, and just jumped onto the trestle, but was stopped by Tang Liyu in front of him. Tang Liyu beckoned to him, lowered her voice and said, "My seventh uncle has something important to discuss with Brother Zhang—come, please come to my Tang family's boat with my little sister." ”
It was also a cabin, but the layout of the Tang family was completely different, the lights and candles were lit brightly, and a table of wine and food was set up, and Tang Shizhang even politely invited Zhang Lu to sit down opposite. Tang Liyu filled the two glasses with wine, then withdrew, and closed the hatch. Tang Shizhang raised his wine glass and raised it towards Zhang Lu: "This time I got the treasures in the Qingjing Fu, it is all Mr. Zhang's credit-come, please drink this cup." ”
After three rounds of drinking, and finally got to the point, Tang Shizhang said: "Presumably Liyu has already greeted Mr. Zhang, I don't know if Mr. Zhang intends to come to my Tang County to develop? Tang and Dongli are allies and have a harmonious relationship, as long as the Hou Ye says a word, you can invite Mr. Zhang to come to my house as a guest - of course, you have to Mr. Zhang to agree." ”
The people of the Tang Mansion were so polite, Zhang Lu had long known that they would have something to ask for, but he didn't expect that they would transfer by themselves. Now that I turn around and think about it, after the "interrogation" came out just now, Tang Shizhang's comforting words not only expressed the goodwill of the Tang Mansion, but also had the intention of separating himself and Dongli - Dongli's two old goods are so unpopular, they don't even give you a stool, even if Li Shijie is disfigured, you have finally found such a large amount of wealth for them, so you shouldn't be so cold-faced. Why are you still staying in such Dongli? Why don't you come to my Tang Mansion?
But what is the benefit of letting yourself transfer? Although he is now in the realm of selflessness, he can be regarded as the best among the younger generation, but there are more talented people in the world, and the Tang family is full of talents, so there is really no need to recruit himself in such a low voice. For example, if you say that you are worth 500,000 yuan, but as soon as the headhunter opens his mouth, he quotes a high price of 2 million, so there must be another reason.
Just because he helped them find some of the treasures of Tangyang Ji? But the wealth is divided, regardless of Dongli, why are the Xili Hou Mansion and the Liuyun Sect not so enthusiastic? And the treasures have already been obtained, and his own role has disappeared, he really doesn't believe that the people of the Tang Mansion are loyal and grateful, and everyone else is a white-eyed wolf.
Oh, he didn't say this specifically at any one, but including the Tang Mansion, that group of people in high positions are all white-eyed wolves in theory, and there can be no exceptions!
So he arched his hand: "Thanks to the love of Tang Lao and Hou Ye, I don't know if Zhang Mou returns to the Tang Mansion, is there any use for me?"
Tang Shizhang stroked his beard and smiled: "Liyu said that Mr. Zhang is resourceful, and it is not a lie." The old man said bluntly, there are four treasures in Tangyang Ji, which are hidden on four islands, and Mr. Zhang can find one of them, and he must be able to find the second. This is exactly what my Tang Mansion wants to ask for Mr. ”
Zhang Lu suddenly realized, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Chiming Fu!"