Chapter 14: The Tanuki Exchanges the Prince
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Fei Cai sat in his room, holding the metal fragment he got from Han Li's body in his hand, looking at it over and over.
If it is a fragment of a magic weapon, most of them have some special effect, and in addition to Han Li's rare metallic single spirit root, what special effect does the two get together to produce, this is most likely the secret of his extremely strong body.
But this is not a cheat, although it can make Han Li stronger than others, but it is far from the level of cheating, at best it can only be regarded as a small treasure.
It's not that there is a different rare thing that can be regarded as a plug-in, it must be like Fei Cai's "fierce practice and natural strength" software, which can make him practice a trace of sword intent in ten days, and he is worthy of being called a plug-in.
When the time comes, let's exchange it for points, Fei Cai put the fragment in his arms and stopped thinking about it.
Now, it can be said that he is back to the starting point, since the protagonist is not Han Li, then who is it?
But now at least one thing is certain, the protagonist, like most mortal protagonists, is a person who is very good at hiding himself.
In fact, Fei Cai already has a new candidate in mind, but at present, not to mention the evidence, there is no basis to support his speculation.
"Let's wait for now, focus on sharpening your sword intent in the past few days. β
......
Ten days later, Fei Cai finally received a reply from the Murong family.
The letter begins with six big characters: "Song Zhong is not Song Zhong." β
There is also a line of small words at the bottom: "From the ninth day of the first month to the foot of Taishen Mountain, talk in detail." β
A flame burst into Fei Cai's hand, burning the letter to ashes.
This Song Zhong really has a problem!
Doubting Song Zhong at first was just Fei Cai's intuition. After all, the first person to approach him was Song Zhong, and the person who pushed him to kill Han Li was also Song Zhong.
Isn't this a common scenario in mystery novels? The protagonist encounters a serial murder case, only to find out in the end that the murderer is his companion.
Of course, this is just a baseless subjective guess, but now that he has received a reply from the Murong family, it is a little different.
Three days later, it was the ninth day of the new month. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Fei Cai left the sect under the pretext of going out to collect a rare spiritual material, and rushed to the foot of Taishen Mountain.
"Young Master Murong, please come with me. Not long after he arrived, a featureless man came to his side.
In Murong Cai's memory, there is this person. The other party is the seventh butler of the Murong family, who is responsible for secret matters, although he looks inconspicuous on the outside, he is actually a monk of the 8th level of qi refining.
Fei Cai didn't speak, just bowed slightly, and the seventh steward led him to a nearby inn, there was no one in the inn, it is estimated that the seventh steward bought the entire inn, and then cleared all the people.
The other party came to the entrance of a cellar, opened the wooden door, and got in first, Fei Cai didn't ask much, and followed him into the cellar.
There was a torch in the cellar, and there were four people in itβtwo of the Seven Butlers' men, two of whom had been beaten to a bloody pulp.
"What's going on?" Fei Cai asked in a calm tone.
"Hui Gongzi. On that day, we received a letter from the son, and immediately mobilized the hidden line lurking in the Song family to investigate, and two days later found out that Song Zhong, the son of the Song family, did not go to the dust alone, and there were two followers with him. We immediately sent a person lurking in the Song family to contact the two entourage, originally just trying to get a little bit of Song Zhong's secret, but we didn't expect the two people to panic and escape from the Song family that day. β
"We kept an eye on the two men, and found it strange, so we stopped the two who had escaped halfway and tortured them, only to reveal a secret that surprised us. β
"It turns out that the real Song family's son, Song Zhong, was killed by the gangster on the way to the Luochen Sect and has already died! It is said that the gangster is a monk at the peak of qi refining, and he likes to attack Song Zhong, a son who is not high in cultivation and has a rich net worth, and the two followers saw that the enemy was strong, so they abandoned Song Zhong and fled, but saved their lives. β
"But Song Zhong was originally going to the Falling Dust Sect to take the entrance exam, if the set time is not present, the Falling Dust Sect will inevitably send someone to ask the Song family, and this matter will soon be revealed, and if the two of them fail to protect Song Zhong at that time, they will definitely be held accountable and executed by the Song family. β
The two of them were at a loss, so they could only think of a way to go to the Falling Dust Sect at the same time, but when they were about to arrive at the Falling Dust Sect, they stumbled upon a young man with facial features that looked very similar to Song Zhong! So the two of them called the name of the Song family to get close, and the young man knew that they were members of the Song family, and there was also a sense of closeness. β
After chatting, the two entourages finally knew that this young man was from a small family that had declined, and this time he won a place in the entrance exam with the last bit of relationship between the family and the Falling Dust Sect. But the young man's qualifications are quite bad, and he is a heavy spiritual root known as the 'pseudo-three spirit roots'. In other words, although he has three spiritual roots, two of them are of the same attribute, and the cultivation speed of this spiritual root combination is only about the same as that of the dual spiritual roots at most, and sometimes it is even inferior to the dual spiritual roots!"
But when the two attendants found out, they were overjoyed. It turned out that the real Song Zhong was also a heavy spiritual root! In order to let him enter the Falling Dust Sect, the Song family also paid a huge price to buy off the invigilation elder, and asked the other party to secretly manipulate when testing the spiritual root, so that Song Zhong could pass the test. β
Seeing this opportunity in front of them, the two entourages certainly couldn't let it go. immediately instigated the young man to pretend to be Song Zhong and take the exam of the Falling Dust Sect, so that at least for a short time, the Song family would not find out that Song Zhong was dead, and the two of them would be saved from death for the time being. On the other hand, with the qualifications of a young man, he could only strive to be an outer disciple, but now he has become an official disciple of the Falling Dust Sect with the channels arranged by the Song family. After weighing the pros and cons, the boy agreed to two retinues. β
After the seventh steward finished talking about the matter in one breath, Fei Cai suddenly realized that he couldn't help but gasp.
Tanuki for the prince!
This routine is not uncommon in Xiuxian novels, and more importantly, in recent years, there have been great gods who have written mortal flow novels about tanuki changing princes, and the protagonist in the book plays the identity of another person at the beginning!
Thinking of this, Fei Cai couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, he boasted that he had read more than 2,000 online novels, but such a routine almost missed out.
But fortunately, it was not too late to find out, he said goodbye to the seventh steward, and hurried back to the Falling Dust Sect. At this moment, the suspicion that Song Zhong is the protagonist has greatly increased.
Song Zhong was on Luosong Peak, Fei Cai went to the top of the peak, and asked his fellow disciples, but he got an answer that Song Zhong went out to look for spiritual materials yesterday and had not come back yet.
It's unlikely, and even if it did, it couldn't be because of yourself.
In this world, no one knows that their mission is to kill the protagonist, and in Song Zhong's opinion, Fei Cai has no reason to kill him.
However, it is easy to know whether Song Zhong has escaped or not, as long as he goes to check whether his furnace Ding Yueyan is still there.
Fei Cai immediately rushed to the outer gate, casually called an outer disciple out, and after some coercion and temptation, the other party quickly shook everything out.
It turned out that on the second day of Han Li's "mysterious disappearance", Song Zhong found Yueyan in a bright light, and everyone suspected that Han Li's "mysterious disappearance" was related to Song Zhong, and because of this, no one dared to stand up to stop him; In the end, Yueyan's character was not strong enough to the extent that he would rather destroy the jade, and was forced to agree to be Song Zhong's furnace.
As for Yueyan, she is not in the sect yet? The outer disciple said that he had seen her this morning, after all, Song Zhong did not imprison Yueyan, and after making the furnace ding, she could still move freely in the sect.
After listening to it, Fei Cai fell into thought. It sounded like this, Song Zhong didn't seem to have escaped, but from this, it was concluded that Song Zhong was only leaving temporarily, but it was far from being able to.
One of the biggest questions is: Song Zhong is in a hurry to let Yueyan be his furnace, what is it for?
Song Zhong's statement was that Yueyan's Yin physique coupled with the special exercises he cultivated could greatly increase his cultivation speed. Fei Cai was already skeptical of this statement, but now he doesn't believe it at all, with Song Zhong's heavy spiritual root, no exercises can save him!
...... Heavy Spiritual Root?
Thinking of this, Fei Cai suddenly had a little eyebrow in his heart.