Chapter Ninety-Three: Return to Southern Xinjiang
The wild sand flew, the rocks shuttled, and the sand that covered the sky and the sun was entangled in mid-air with the wave of a horse lance, condensing into a huge dragon head, which devoured more than a dozen knights who charged ahead.
The smoke and dust cleared, and a black-clothed young man walked out of it, and behind him, the knights who had just formed a battle formation and charged lay on the ground, and three officers in Xuanwu armor were smashed into the chest by the horse lance, and were nailed to the ground like a string of sugar gourds.
The young man walked up to the stunned white-faced young man on the side of the road and said to the middle of the field, "Okay, now that we have mounts, let's separate here." ”
Only then did the white-faced young man come back to his senses and said respectfully: "Lord Si Master's miraculous skills are unrivaled in the world. ”
Chen An pouted: "Don't pat yourself on the back, we still have a lot to do now." This place is close to the Yunxiao Ancient Road, and you will go north from now on to meet Qiu Yuan and them, and I ...... I also have to go to southern Xinjiang. ”
Lin Jing glanced at the sleeping girl in Tsing Yi on the side, and said worriedly: "My lord, except for the miasma beasts in southern Xinjiang, they are barbarians, it is really dangerous, is there no other way?"
"There is a way, but only the fastest way to go to southern Xinjiang. Chen An glanced at the south in a daze, and then came back to his senses and ordered: "I know all this, you just do your own thing, after seeing Qiu Yuan, pass my order, if I can't rush back within the agreed time, you will take Qiu Yuan as the commander and act according to the plan." ”
"The subordinates obeyed. Lin Jing saw that Chen An'an had made up his mind, so he didn't dare to persuade him anymore, so he had to bow down and obey.
Looking at Lin Jing's distant back, Chen An picked up Qu Qingyu on the ground, stepped on a war horse wandering around, and left the place.
At this time, two days have passed since the battle of Wenjia Beizhuang, and in the past two days, he has been working day and night, speeding up his horse and whipping his horse, and rushed to the hinterland of Nanzhou, thousands of miles away.
The four good horses of the Western Regions have lasted until now, and finally died on the ground due to physical exhaustion.
Fortunately, he happened to meet the patrol rangers of the King of Shu, and Chen An unceremoniously smiled at the foot power they sent.
With these new forces, he should be able to enter the southern frontier one day.
Rushing from Cangzhou to Southern Xinjiang in three days, it can be described as a flying action, Chen An has no choice, even if he has his strong internal force to suppress it, the Gu worms on Qu Qingyu's body can't be suppressed for long.
Chen An is a poison path master, although he has never seen the Soul Burning Gu, but after two days of research and analysis, he can also know some of its characteristics. It's more than just an enhanced version of the Red Heart Gu.
To put it bluntly, Red Heart Gu is a hot poison, as long as it is vented. The combustible soul Gu is completely different, it is poisonous and domineering, if it is not expelled, it will continue to burn the essence in the host's body until the host's oil runs out.
If Qu whispered that it was poisoned, Chen An still had many ways to deal with it, but Gu and poison were different after all, Gu's explosive power was not as strong as poison, there was a gradual process, but the sustained ability in the later stage was much stronger than poison. If it is not lifted in time, it will only get worse.
In fact, even the Gu art of Ghost Uncle everyone can't tell what Gu is, but Guiyi is good at controlling insects, let's just think that Gu is a kind of parasitic insect in the human body, relying on the cannibalization of the human body's essence and blood to grow, in addition to controlling people, only Southern Xinjiang Jiacao can be solved.
But what Chen An knew, what Jia Cao could disarm was the Golden Silkworm Gu and other twelve primordial Gus, and this Soul Burning Gu was obviously not among them.
But even so, Chen An has a way, he has discussed this problem with the ghost uncle, and he has a certain understanding of many Gu poison removal methods, although the release of this Soul Burning Gu is unknown, but it is not clueless.
The effect of Jiacao on Gu poison is obvious, even if it cannot be lifted, it can also play a great inhibitory role, as long as some special drugs are prepared, when the medicine can be eliminated.
And the key is to hurry, although Jiacao is not a precious thing, but it is only produced in the hinterland of southern Xinjiang. Although Chen An's icy true qi could inhibit the development of Gu poison, it couldn't last long after all. Because most of his martial arts are practiced from poisons, the power is very great, but to heal people, that is, to drink a donkey to quench thirst. So in the past two days, Chen An has only banned Gu poison three times for Qu Qingyu.
What's more serious is that it is autumn at this time, which is the time when the poisonous miasma in southern Xinjiang grows, and it is also the last crazy moment for the poisonous insects. Although Chen An is not afraid of any poisonous fog and poisonous insects, he will always delay a lot of time for this, so he can't help but be in a hurry.
With the help of the Nanzhou Observer who was hiding in southern Xinjiang, Chen An did not take any detours, and it took almost a day to enter the hinterland of southern Xinjiang.
But when you get here, there are no roads, and there are mountains and forests everywhere. The forests here are different from those in the north, there are very few trees that go straight up and down, and all of them are low tangled shrubs, and there are no horses here at all.
So Chen An could only put Qu Qingyu on his back in a coma and walked on foot. As you walk, you will measure the climate and topography and speculate on the possible growth environment of the grass.
It is indeed not the first time he has come to the land of southern Xinjiang, in addition to the last time he and Zhang Xia came here to destroy Jiaolong Village, he also took over a task of drawing the landform of southern Xinjiang. But even so, he was now walking with great caution. The mountains and forests here are repeated, which makes people look at it with all colors, and if you are not careful, you will lose your way. Talking about stargazing, moon gazing, and surveying the sun, it is simply not realistic under this dense foliage, and sometimes you can't even see a piece of sky.
Chen An estimated that even if a million troops were put into it, they would not be able to splash a splash, which was why the imperial court had a headache for the barbarians, but it had to be wooed by Wang Hua.
Along the way, they found some herbs to make anti-miasma and insect repellent medicines, and smeared them all over the body, Chen An's actions were a little faster, and by the time he prepared the medicine for Qu Qingyu's treatment, they had already walked through several Yi villages, but they still didn't see any trace of Jiacao.
Chen An looked at Qu whispering like a boiled lobster, and was ruthless, and once again attached cold ice to the palm of his hand, helping her to massage the big acupoints around her body until her body temperature dropped again.
Qu whispered in a state that gradually stabilized, Chen Anxin comforted, raised his hand to wipe the sweat beads on his forehead, although the act just now did not consume much of his internal strength, but the control was subtle for fear of hurting his niece.
After settling down, he frowned again, there was already a situation of cold and heat fighting on Whispering's body, and he could do it again at most, otherwise Qu Whispering would be poisoned by his own cold poison if he was not tortured to death by the Soul Burning Gu, and Mu Shaoping's tragedy would be staged again, becoming the second person to die in his hands.
Listening to Qu's whispering and even breathing, Chen An had the time to think about the strangeness.
Things are indeed a bit unusual, how can Jiacao, a thing that is thrown on the side of the road and no one picks it up, not a single plant can be seen when you walk here. The only explanation seems to be that it was taken in advance.
Then the question arises, who would have nothing to pick such a thing?
Could it be that the Immortal Sect knew that they needed this thing, and deliberately set up an ambush to wait for themselves?
Chen An shook his head fiercely, he had only been an official for a few days, so he was such a conspiracy theory. Everyone in the world knows that poison and Gu are useless to themselves, how can anyone use these to design themselves. And those who want to deal with themselves must also know their own character, they are cold and selfish by nature, and they will never risk anyone casually.
And Qu Qingyu's relationship with himself is not known, and even he himself only found out three days ago. Even if someone noticed the unusualness, could they move faster than him? You must know that he ran and killed six horses in three days, and almost leaped directly from the Cangzhou territory to the southern frontier thousands of miles away.
Since it's neither, it seems that there is only one possibility, and his previous guess is likely to be correct.
What he said to Qili Zhengming was actually just a lie, he had always suspected that King Qin had foreign aid, otherwise even the emperor of Lekai knew the fact that King Qin would be defeated, so what kind of military advice did King Qin himself launch. Although the reason why King Qin has actions is completely forced by the emperor, how can he gather so many strong people to work for him without a little backhand, and there are so many heroes who are really righteous and Bo Yuntian?
In fact, Chen An always thought it was a certain department of Beirong, but who knew that it was Nanban.
Thinking about it, because of Zhang Yong's little pusher, the various departments of Beirong are in chaos, and they are eager to screw each other's heads off, who has time to take care of the idle affairs of the Central Plains.
But the weight of the Nanban is a bit too low, at most it can surprise and create a little chaos, so that the King of Qin and the court will fight against each other, and even this advantage will gradually disappear with the passage of the war, after all, the court has the entire Central Plains as the backing, and the King of Qin only has a bitter cold land in the northwest, and there is no comparison in terms of recovery power.
It's not that Chen An looks down on the southern barbarians, but these alien races are really good hands in the mountains and forests, and they are really nothing on the plains.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Chen An, all he cares about is Qu Qingyu's life.
As the largest religious force in southern Xinjiang, the Immortal Sect should have entered a state of war readiness at this time, and Jia Cao, as a raw material that can raise Gu worms, is indeed considered a war preparation material, and it should have all been harvested and stored in major villages, and of course it was nothing in the wilderness.
When Chen An came, he was afraid that he would arouse the hostility of the barbarians, so he traveled all the way in the wilderness, even if he passed through a few villages, he did not stop, but now it seems that he is begging for fish.
Thinking about the trick, he once again put Qu Qingyu on his body and walked towards a nearby village.
This is already the real hinterland of southern Xinjiang, and these villages are full of barbarians, and there is not a single familiar barbarian who is good with the Central Plains. Not to mention the people of the Central Plains, even ordinary barbarians dare not come here, the sinister environment is one thing, the key is that the barbarians do not obey the king, they are cruel, and they are extremely repulsive to outsiders. Even if they come here in normal times, it won't be a good thing, not to mention that now they will start a war with the Central Plains. This is also the reason why Chen An does not want to have anything to do with these villages.
But now that he knew that there might be a reserve of Jiacao in these villages, Chen An had nothing to take care of.
Came to the gate of the village, without waiting for the guard militia to come up to question, directly Qingping out of the sheath, two heads with two blood springs flew into the sky, for a time the whole village cried, scolded, screamed endlessly. It took a whole meal to quiet down again.