Chapter Seventy-Three: Kiyohime
Qi Xuansu and Xiao Yin set out on their way home from Mt. Suzuka, and they clearly felt that the atmosphere in the entire Ise was different, as if they were facing a great enemy, tense and chaotic.
Ise Jingu had to defend against Mt. Suzuka behind him and the approaching Domon army in front of it, and it was not enough to rely on the Zun faction in Ise alone, and it was necessary to ask for help, and the Imperial Family and Ise Jingu were one and had an unshirkable responsibility in this regard.
What's more, Ise Shrine, as the head of the Heavenly Gate Ancestral Court and the three major shrines, hides too many secrets about Fenglin Continent inside, and if Ise Shrine falls into the hands of the Daomen, then the Zun Sect will have almost no secrets to speak of, which is also unacceptable to the Zun Sect.
Therefore, even if the Venerable faction knew that the intention of the gate was to encircle the point and send reinforcements, the current Ise was a trap, and they still had to jump into it.
This is the Yang Scheme.
For Qi Xuansu, it is naturally a good thing.
The more chaotic it is, the less likely it is to notice Qi Xuansu. Even if he noticed Qi Xuansu, his heart was weak.
In fact, if Qi Xuansu planned to be in the limelight, then he could use the three major yin things to run rampant in Ise and turn the rear of the Ise Shrine upside down???????????????? Ground cover. However, Qi Xuansu thought about it again and again and gave up this approach.
First of all, the three yin things are not called in vain, they are all human debts that will be repaid in the future. Secondly, after the matter is big, Qi Xuansu is not easy to explain to the Daomen, after all, nominally speaking, the three major yin things belong to the creation of the Daomen, Qi Xuansu has no right to call it privately, if few people know, that is, to use it secretly, the upper echelons of the Quanzhen Dao led by Donghua Zhenren can still turn a blind eye, if it is a big trouble, then Qi Xuansu's unruly behavior has to be dealt with seriously. In the end, Ise Jingu is not a soft persimmon, after all, it is the ancestral court of Tianmen, and it is not impossible to provoke an immortal to destroy him.
This is the uncontrollable nature of the battlefield.
Many unwritten rules in peacetime will be broken, and under normal circumstances, immortal-level existences will not make easy moves, but in wartime it is very difficult to say. For example, Koga Shangnin, looking at the entire Fenglin Continent, there are only two Shangnin, representing Iga and Koga, respectively, and he is one of them, and as a result, he is dead.
If the pseudo-immortal dies, Qi Xuansu can't die?
Of the eight swordsmen with a large number of people, only two of them really clarified their positions, namely Yagyu Somasa representing the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion and Katsura Yoshiyuki representing the Zun faction, while the other six had ambiguous attitudes.
Among these six people, some of them are feudal lords, and they are far away from the center of the battlefield, and they only want to save their family business, and wait until the two sides have decided the victory, and then choose to take sides. Some people are obsessed with swordsmanship, crazy, alone, wandering around, uncertain, the world is divided, what does it have to do with me. Some people kill too much when they are young, abandon their swords and live in seclusion when they are old, face the wall and go to Zen, and they have been wrestling with themselves for a long time, but they still don't understand whether they should be themselves or not. There are also people who have retired for many years, teasing their grandchildren, enjoying the joy of family, and now they just want to be a rich man with peace of mind and no longer pay attention to these major events in the world. There are also people who are dedicated to spreading their own kendo and recruiting disciples, and he doesn't care whether the disciples are loyal to the prime minister or the royal family after they leave the school. Some people have already left Fenglinzhou and sailed to the sea, but they are nowhere to be found.
Of the eight swordsmen, only three of them are as high as the temple, but five of them are far away from the rivers and lakes.
I have to say that the rivers and lakes of Fenglinzhou are still full of vitality, and there is a realm of competition for all things.
On the other hand, the rivers and lakes of the Central Plains are inevitably lifeless, except for secret associations or secret associations, and in these secret associations, half of them are against the cult of the temple, and half are the continuation of the temple.
In the final analysis, the relationship between temples and rivers and lakes is one that eliminates the other's strengths, and when the temples are strong, the rivers and lakes are weak. On the contrary, when the temple is weakened, the rivers and lakes will be strong.
At the end of the previous dynasty, the rivers and lakes of the Central Plains were also vibrant, and they fought against the Confucian sect that represented the temple.
Now that the Daomen and the Daxuan Imperial Court are unprecedentedly powerful, far surpassing the previous dynasties, then the rivers and lakes will naturally become vassals of the temple.
The reason why the rivers and lakes of Fenglinzhou are vibrant is precisely because of the weakness of its temples.
The eight sword heroes are like the status quo of Fenglin Continent - divided.
If the Fenglinzhou Emperor is just a symbol, then the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion is just an alliance master, far from a word, and the big and small feudal lords do their own thing under this framework, passed down from generation to generation, as if they are the emperor of the soil.
The whole world is not the king's land, and it is never an empty word in the Central Plains, but it is an empty word in Fenglinzhou.
Why did the Daomen attack the nobility but not the people? Because these have ???????????????? The nobility of the hereditary fiefdom is the biggest obstacle.
There seem to be a lot of pseudo-immortals in Fenglin Continent, but if you think about it carefully, the real essence is the eight sword heroes and the two Shangnin, plus the two pure rank palace divisions of Tianmen, a total of twelve people. The Yin and Yang Dao has been weakened for a long time, and there is no pseudo-immortal.
In terms of the number is far inferior to the Central Plains, the pseudo-immortals on the Central Plains side are only known to Qi Xuansu, including the "proprietor", Qi Niang, Qingwei Zhenren, Cihang Zhenren, Donghua Zhenren, Xuanhui Yuan Ancestor, Zhang Wuxian, Xuanji Star Lord, Jin Gong Patriarch, Wu Guangbi, Ding Weilingguan, Jiachen Lingguan, Shi Dazhenren, Li Changsheng, Zhang Wuliang, this is already twelve people.
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There is a worry-free list, which includes ten pseudo-immortals outside the Daomen, Jin Gong Patriarch is at the top of the list, Wu Guangbi is at the bottom, and there are eight places between the two, these are the eight pseudo-immortals. Even if the "proprietor", the Xuanji Star Lord, and the ancestor of Xuanhui Academy are included, there are still five pseudo-immortals who have never shown up.
Half of the twelve first-grade spirit officials are pseudo-immortals, and in addition to Jiachen Lingguan and Ding Wei Lingguan, there are four pseudo-immortals.
Seven Pingzhang Great True People, in addition to the Immortal Man and Shi Da Zhenren, there are also a few pseudo-immortals.
Then there is the Confucian Academy, the cabinet of the imperial court, and the golden gate of the Daomen, and there are also pseudo-immortals.
And that's not even counting the various creations of the Daomen.
In terms of the number of pseudo-immortals, the Central Plains is almost crushing.
Some people may want to say that these pseudo-immortals are not all from the Daomen, and even many of them still stand on the opposite side of the Daomen. In the same way, the pseudo-immortals in Fenglin Continent are not all respectful factions, and many of them are hanging high without caring about themselves.
The most important thing is that whether it is a pseudo-immortal or a celestial person, the Central Plains has a strict organizational system, but Fenglinzhou is a plate of scattered sand, even if there are many equal, and even if there are more pseudo-immortals in Fenglinzhou, Fenglinzhou will definitely lose. Since ancient times, it has been the victory of the organized over the unorganized, and there have never been exceptions.
As for the mountain gods such as Suzuka Gozen, they have existed for more than a hundred years and cannot leave Fenglin Continent, so they can't be regarded as normal pseudo-immortals.
There are similar pseudo-immortals in the Central Plains, but unfortunately I met Lu Wushen, who guarded the door for Yujing, and most of them ended miserably, and now they are extinct. However, Fenglinzhou is closed to the country, retaining a fairly primitive style, and you can still see this kind of pseudo-immortal. This is somewhat similar to how many books have been lost in the Central Plains, but have been preserved intact by Fenglinzhou.
All in all, Qi Xuansu doesn't plan to stay too much in Ise, there are still three catties of nails in the broken ship, after all, it is a continent and a country, and now Qi Xuansu is far from being rampant, and when he also becomes a pseudo-immortal, there will probably be no problem.
However, when Qi Xuansu passed through Anong County, he still encountered an accident.
He and Xiao Yin encountered a monster.
The upper body of this monster is a woman, wearing the clothes of a woman in Fenglinzhou, which seems to be no different from an ordinary woman, but her lower body is a huge snake body.
Mr. Yin has returned to the Ghost Country Cave Heaven, and Qi Xuansu and Xiao Yin can only join forces to deal with this monster.
This monster is the Qingji in the mouth of the owner of the green house.
After she killed An Zhen, she was suppressed by the Fenglinzhou Buddhist Gate, and later handed over to the Ise Shrine, and was sealed in the territory of Ise, after the Ise War, the seals everywhere were loosened to varying degrees, and the Ise Shrine, which was greatly injured, was also unable to strengthen the seal, just after Master Wan went all out to fight the pure rank priest of the Ise Shrine, Qing ???????????????? Ji took the opportunity to break the seal and appeared in Mino County.
According to Buddhism, this should be regarded as karma, Qi Xuansu invited Master Wan to make trouble in Meinong County, but released Qingji, and turned around to block his way back.
Years of sealing had worn out most of Kiyohime's sanity, and after the two sides met in a narrow way, Kiyohime swam straight towards the two of them, spitting out billowing flames at the same time.
Qi Xuansu didn't take it seriously, not to mention that seeing God is not bad, the "Youyi Cloud Clothes" on his body is also invulnerable, but as soon as he came into contact with this flame, Qi Xuansu realized that something was wrong, this flame seemed to be divided into two parts, one part was an ordinary flame, which was blocked by his "Youyi Cloud Clothes", but after fading the outer layer of flames, there was still a flame inside, ignoring the "Youyi Cloud Clothes", ignoring Qi Xuansu's Seeing God is not bad, True Qi protects the body, and burned straight to Qi Xuansu's heart.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but be surprised, he was also a little knowledgeable, he had never seen such a strange method, and he had never heard of it.
Thankfully, the Heart of the Immortal Stone came into play at this moment.
As the supreme creation masterpiece of the Ancient Witchcraft and Daomen, the "Heart of the Immortal Stone" is really wonderful, and even this strange flame has not been able to break through the protection of the "Heart of the Immortal Stone".
However, after the flames were blocked, they immediately dispersed, merged into the true qi in Qi Xuansu's body, and disappeared in an instant.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, he had seen Zhang Yuelu's "Six Void Tribulations", and the power of the Six Tribulations entered the bodies of others, it seemed like a mud cow entering the sea, but in fact, it was dormant, and when he found the opportunity, he let the true qi in his body kill each other, could this kind of flame be similar to the "Six Void Tribulations"?
At this moment, Xiao Yin's voice interrupted Qi Xuansu's thoughts.
It turned out that after Qing Ji spewed flames towards Qi Xuansu, Qi Xuansu entered a state of wandering outside the object, and Xiao Yin was entangled by Qing Ji with a snake body, she wanted to bite with her teeth, but the snake scales were extremely hard, and she couldn't bite at all, even Xiao Yin's corpse qi couldn't help it.
The snake body is getting tighter and tighter, and it is stronger than the martial arts, and it makes Xiao Yin wow scream, if Qi Xuansu doesn't come back to her senses, she will have to return to the "Emperor Liu" for rebirth first.
Seeing this, Qi Xuansu immediately pulled out "Qingyun" and slashed towards Qing Ji with a sword.