The five of them returned to the house where they were hiding, Li Yiheng put Huo Yang in the hammock to recuperate, and after Qing Wanjin rested a little, he found a lot of herb ratios in the storage cabinet in the kitchen, and boiled them into soup for Huo Yang to adduce. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Yiheng saw that there were many herbs in the locker, and guessed that this must be an important base of Qingwanjin, so he asked him: "Mr. Qing, you have prepared so many herbs here, are you already preparing for this operation?"

Qing Wanjin had already fed all the medicinal soup in the bowl to Huo Yang, put down the medicine bowl, and looked at Li Yiheng: "This is an important residence for me to come to the Ying clan to do business, but I don't live here on weekdays, in order to prevent being discovered, for this day, I have stored almost all the medicinal herbs on Thorn Island here, which can treat most of the injuries, but I don't want to use it one day, I can't think of using it." ”

Li Yiheng knew that Qing Wanjin had been preparing for this operation for a long time, and thought that Huo Yang was also seriously injured because of this operation and was still in a coma, and he was also embarrassed: "I thought that this operation was not so difficult, but now it seems that I underestimated the ability of the Ying clan too much, and the big fat worm I met this time alone also made us lose most of our strength." ”

However, this operation is still fruitful, Li Yiheng not only learned that the Ying people are two factions of people confronting each other, but also that the Tu League is rejected by the Sun League, the Sun League has a large number of people, and the current king of the Ying people is also a faction of the Sun League, but the Tu League has many secrets of "Sang Shen", and the Sun League faction does not dare to ignore them, so they just turn a blind eye to them and tolerate some of their cruel acts, such as human sacrifice.

Most importantly, Li Yiheng discovered that Xiao Ji still has a lot of untapped potential.

"Then now do we have to recuperate first, and wait until our physical strength is fully recovered and Mr. Huo Yang is also recovered, and then make plans?" Li Yiheng considered the current situation, and it was the best way to stop acting for the time being.

Qing Wanjin also agreed with Li Yiheng's opinion and decided to cure Huo Yang first, and then discuss the future.

Although Huo Yang is older than Li Yiheng three times, his physical strength is not inferior to Li Yiheng, and his recovery is also very fast, and he can already hold the steel knife and wave it five days later to soothe his muscles and bones, which also means that the operation of stealing the "light seed" continues to be on the agenda.

Qing Wanjin went out almost every day in the past five days, wearing the blue-gray robes common to the commoners of the Ying tribe, and went to the center of the city to inquire more about Tu Meng, especially about Ying Fang and the big fat worm, but received very little information.

Seeing that Huo Yang had recovered, Qing Wanjin summoned everyone to formulate a strategy, Qing Wanjin seemed to be very jealous of Ying Fang and the big fat worm, and mentioned them many times in the process of formulating a strategy.

"You must know that the giant insect is an important combat weapon raised by the Tu Alliance faction, and now we have only seen one, but we can't tell how much they still have hidden, so while stealing the light seeds, we must obtain as much information about them as possible, because we will definitely meet them on the battlefield in the future. Qing Wanjin deliberately said the last two sentences very seriously, which also made Li Yiheng feel that these big fat insects were the obstacles they would eventually face.

After recovering, Huo Yang didn't mean to be afraid of the big fat insect at all, and he was even more angry when he heard Qing Wanjin mention the big fat insect: "Well, next time I meet it, I will definitely catch it and roast it." ”

Hearing Huo Yang's words, Qingping and Li Yiheng couldn't help laughing, his old man didn't know that these two young people had already tasted the delicacy of fat worms.

Huo Yang looked at Qingping and Li Yiheng and said, "You two cubs, what are you laughing at?" The voice was very loud, waking up Xiao Ji who was sleeping in the hammock, and Xiao Ji screamed dissatisfied.

Qing Wanjin interrupted Huo Yang's words and said: "You are old and stubborn, you are still so reckless at this age, if they didn't save you, who would eat who wouldn't be certain, tell me the news you found out, and let's study how to act together." ”

Huo Yang seemed to respect Qing Wanjin very much, and immediately quieted down like a little brother, and said: "I have found out where the light seed is hidden, this old immortal 'mulberry ginseng' is really stingy, since it germinated, it has produced seeds three times, and it was collected by the Tu League faction in the underground of their temple, where they still studied the secret arts, but since they began to study the light seed without the heart eye, two light seeds have been abolished, and now only one is still well preserved." ”

"Okay, you take Qingping and Li Yiheng to steal the light seed, I have to go back to our clan, the container I brought to hold the light seed was damaged in the process of dealing with Yingfang, I have to go back and make a new one. Qing Wanjin was very concerned about the damage to the light seed container, and Li Yiheng caught Qing Wanjin's face flashing with a dejected expression when he said this.

Qingping had never seen the so-called container containing the light seed from beginning to end, and asked curiously: "I haven't heard you mention it, old man, what does this so-called container look like, and you have to return to the Qing clan to make it?"

"There is no container, even if you carry the light seed, it will slowly wither and eventually lose its value, besides, the Qing clan has the raw materials to make the container, and the weapon I used last time we escaped from the altar was made from our group of unique plants, the dragon's blood tree. Qing Wanjin gestured on the table to the shape of the container, like a horned cup in the shape of a bird's beak.

Li Yiheng had never seen the so-called container, nor did he know that this special container was needed to store the light seeds, let alone that there was a dragon's blood tree growing in the Qing clan that had been in the Qing clan for a long time, of course, even Qingping did not know that there was such a plant.

After the five of them agreed, Qing Wanjin immediately set off to return to the Qing Clan, striving to come back before Li Yiheng and the others obtained the light seed, so as to shorten the time for the light seed to wither as much as possible.

Huo Yang took Li Yiheng, Qingping and Xiao Ji, the three of them were uniformly dressed in the blue-gray robes of the locals, and Xiao Ji hid in the hidden pocket around Li Yiheng's waist, and the three of them shuttled through the streets of the middle of the city, marching towards the holy place of the Tu Meng faction - the Heavenly Temple, which was located on the opposite side of the palace.

On the road, there were many people of the Ying clan setting up stalls on the streets to do business, and Li Yiheng could not clearly distinguish those who were from the Sunmeng faction and those who were from the Tu League, because as far as the eye could see, almost all the streets were peaceful scenes, and he met a few bargaining guests who were blushing with the merchants because of the difference in prices of a few cents, and he really couldn't see any signs of sectarian disputes here.

"Mr. Huo, how can you tell which people are from the Tu League's faction?" Li Yiheng asked closely on Huo Yang's right, and Li Yiheng found that many people's backs had been completely obscured at this time, and they could no longer be identified by their physical characteristics alone.

Qingping also followed Huo Yang to the left, with the same question, and wanted to hear Huo Yang's answer.

Huo Yang kept his head stuffed and walked forward, and when he heard Li Yiheng ask, he proudly straightened his chest, cleared his throat, and said: "The difference in their appearance is very small, the old man Tu Meng has relatively little hair, almost all of them are bald, and there is only a small strand of hair on the forehead. Although the people of the Sun League also have curved noses, except for the color of their wings, you will see that their foreheads are more rounded, while the foreheads of the Tu League people are narrower; if you listen carefully to their words, you will find that there is also a difference, and most of the people of the Tu League faction habitually add ' at the end of the sentence Hula' is a rhyming modal word, which is the result of their long-term education, and in addition, the people of the Tu League faction speak more extremely, and the people of the Sun League speak relatively mildly, which is also the result of the two factions of people receiving different cultural education for a long time. ”

After listening to the two characteristics that Huo Yang said, Li Yiheng went to find the pedestrians around him to conduct experiments, and he saw a person in front of him wearing the same clothes as himself choosing something that looked like perfume in front of a vendor, whose table was full of bottles and cans.

But this vendor seems to be a little radical, and seems to have a lot of opinions about the people of Tu Meng's faction, and the guests in front of him are just like Huo Yang said, and almost every sentence will have a 'hula'-like rhyme at the end, so Li Yiheng concluded that the guests are people from Tu Meng's faction.

And this guest is also very dissatisfied with the attitude of the small trader, he asked some questions about perfume, "what does this smell of", "oops, it's so expensive, hula", "alas, what kind of attitude do you have", etc., Li Yiheng was very annoyed when he heard it, and the small trader said bluntly: "I won't sell you anymore, you can buy it wherever you see the other ones, don't talk so much here." ”

The guest was also anxious, the wings on the back "stabbed", with the tearing of the clothes behind the back, a pair of black wings spread, the guest picked up a bottle of perfume on the table and sprayed it on the wings, and after spraying, he shook his wings violently, similar to the action of a woman spraying perfume, and then the guest threw down a bag of money and swaggered away, leaving a very unhappy little vendor.

"It's really as Huo Yang said, so he can also distinguish the people of the two factions, it seems that he has indeed stayed here for a long time, but compared with Qing Wanjin, there is still a bit of a gap, Qing Wan Jin dares to do business here openly, Huo Yang can only pretend to act. Li Yiheng thought, but he didn't realize that he had fallen behind the other two, and quickly chased after him.

Qingping and Li Yiheng followed Huo Yang, gradually walking along the street to a higher place, the taller branches were artificially stretched to the lower level, fixed with hemp rope and refined oak gum, and over time, these branches would grow in an artificial direction, plus manpower to constantly rest, cutting off the excess branches and leaves, these trunks were made into bridges, connecting the two adjacent layers of the trunk street.

After stepping on many such tree bridges, the three of them walked higher and higher, and came to the bottom of the Heavenly Temple, the holy place of the Tu League, where the three of them stood at the end of the street inhabited by the city's citizens, and above, that is, the trunk where the temple was located, no city-dwellers were allowed to have buildings, only religious houses with the same characteristics were scattered throughout the trunk, and in the center was a temple-like building that could accommodate 10,000 people at the same time, used for ceremonies and preaching, and was surrounded by a dense number of smaller temples, which should provide a place for the believers to rest.

It is almost as high as the palace of the Ying clan, and the location of the "mulberry ginseng" tree and the altar is on the trunk of the temple alone.

Looking at these buildings on the trunks of the trees above, Qingping sighed: "These temples are even grander than the palaces of our clan, how rich should the Ying clan be!"

"Save it, I don't have time to discuss this now, there is no tree bridge leading to it here, and we can't fly, we have to find a way to get in", Huo Yang looked up, "There are too many people here now, and it is easy to be discovered, so we still have to wait until the right time." ”

The three of them stopped on the street, looked at the temple diagonally above, and seemed very abrupt among the pedestrians coming and going, so they found a teahouse and sat down.

"What kind of timing is appropriate?" Li Yiheng asked Huo Yang, bringing Huo Yang a glass of water by the way.

"Normally, these worshippers come here and fly up, but we can't do that, so we have to wait until we can hide our tracks. Huo Yang took the water cup and drank it all.

"Fog, fog, right?" asked Li Yiheng.

"Yes, I have been exploring here for a long time, and I have found that there is fog at this height almost every day, which is why the temple was built here, so that it can be used to cover the sacrifice with a mysterious color with the help of natural phenomena. Huo Yang looked at Li Yiheng approvingly.

Qingping realized that things would not be so simple, and said: "Last time we alarmed the Tu League faction, they will definitely set up heavy defenses around the temple, besides, don't you think it's strange, we didn't meet Tu Meng's people searching along the way, which is not logical." ”

"Haha, young man, if they want to catch us, they will pull out that big fat worm, and they will find our smell and look for it, there is no need to do low-level actions such as searching, and besides, we will still come here, they have long known that it is easier to chase than to wait for the rabbit, and also, the fat worm that Li Yiheng's little brother fought last time ran away, and they will not make a big move in a short time, so in your opinion, it is unreasonable, in fact, it is the best way for them. Huo Yang didn't care about Qingping's face at all, and although what he said was not good for the ears, it was also correctly analyzed.

Qingping is not a face-loving person, otherwise he would not have endured making a crossbow machine for so long, so after listening to Huo Yang's words, he also felt that it made sense, and he was also a little ashamed that he did not consider it comprehensively.

The three of them sat in the teahouse for a quarter of an hour, Huo Yang got up and said, "Let's go, find a place to rest, it's almost time for these Ying people to sleep, we have to leave." ”

Li Yiheng thought that Qingping had told him that the Qing people relied on the biological clock in their bodies to work and rest on their own, because there was no darkness here, and they could only rely on the instinct in their bodies to fix the time of sleeping, presumably these Ying people were the same.

"Where are you going?" asked Li Yiheng.

"At the end of the street, that's where I often hide," Huo Yang said, having arrived at the gate of the teahouse, "where we can rest and wait for the fog to gather." ”

Li Yiheng and Qingping followed Huo Yang through the streets to the so-called hiding place: at the end of the trunks of the trees that supported the houses, there were densely intertwined branches, and through these branches, inside was a dwelling in the shape of a bird's nest covered with several huge leaves.

"Let's rest here first, and then sneak into the temple through the mist. Huo Yang sat on the spot, closed his eyes and rested.

Li Yiheng and Qingping also rested on the spot, Xiao Ji came out, and saw the big bird's nest under him, he was very happy, and kept flying around on the bird's nest, looking at the leaves, pecking at the branches, as if he was tidying up his own nest.

After about half a day, moisture began to accumulate all around, Li Yiheng felt a trace of coolness through his clothes, and couldn't help but tighten his clothes, Qingping also felt the cold, and his neck retracted into the collar.

But this will affect people's judgment of the surrounding environment, and their perception will become slow, so Li Yiheng did not do what Qingping did, he must always maintain a keen perception ability, so that he can preemptively strike in distress and not be passive.

The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and you can see the mist passing through the small eddies formed by the branches, surrounding the branches, giving the feeling of clouds.

"It's now, action!" Huo Yang bounced off the ground, and he seemed to be able to feel the fog in his environment condensing even with his eyes closed, and it also reached the level that he was satisfied with.

Li Yiheng and Qingping were already tired because they had been waiting for too long, but they were suddenly awakened by Huo Yang's sudden words, and the fatigue dissipated.

Xiao Ji stood on Li Yiheng's left shoulder again, and probed the situation on the left and right sides and behind Li Yiheng.

The three of them took advantage of the mist and stepped on the branches, and quietly pulled to the trunk of the tree where the temple was located.

The temple was submerged in fog, and only its shadow could be faintly seen, and the surroundings were unusually quiet, with no pedestrians moving or talking, making it seem that everyone here was sleeping, or that there was no one here.

Huo Yang led the way in front, ignoring the small houses around, but went straight to the big temple in the center, his purpose was very clear, and the intelligence was also very comprehensive, and the hiding place of the locked light seed was in the underground secret room of the big temple, just like a wolf that locked the prey, his attention was all on the prey, and the surrounding environment would not distract him.

The three of them gradually approached the central temple, standing under the wall of the temple, Li Yiheng stretched out his hand and touched the wall, wood, the joints between the wooden boards were added with refined rubber tree sap, making the joints more tight, and the walls were coated with the iron tree sap that Qingping said, making the walls as hard as steel.

On the wall was a row of five-meter-square windows, stretching into the fog in the distance, gradually blurring, and it was not clear how many there were.

Huo Yang picked up a window sill, probed the situation inside through the glass, and then took out a long wooden jar from his pocket, dipped the knife he wore and dipped it in a light red liquid and smeared it all over the window, and then the "glass" on the window began to melt, mixed with the light red liquid, and covered the window sill.

"What are you taking?" Li Yiheng asked Huo Yang as he looked at the graded "glass".

"These are not glass, they are cast from the sap of the banyan tree, and these pale red liquids of mine are the secretions of konjac, which can melt these", Huo Yang proudly shook the wooden jar in his hand to Li Yi, "Come up, let's go in from here, there are soldiers guarding the gate." ”

Li Yiheng and Qingping also climbed into the temple through the window, and in front of them were layers of seats, and Li Yiheng and they landed right in the position of the front seats.

Huo Yang walked up to the ceremonial platform in front of the temple, in the center of the ceremonial platform was a ten-meter-high stone statue, the human body, carved with some terrifying muscle stripes, behind it was a pair of vulture-like black wings, the same as the wings of the sacrificial elders;

"Where is the passage?" Li Yiheng asked Huo Yang quietly, for fear of alarming the guards outside the door, but the gate was still quite far from the ceremony platform, so there was no need to worry about this.

"Under the statue, the problem now is to find a way to move the statue away. ”