Chapter 34: Backtracking
After all, the assassin did not die under the ghost head knife, not because of his fate, but because Qi Xuansu deliberately left his hand.
Qi Xuansu has come to this point, and the most important thing is the martial arts inheritance, and then the Wuzhu inheritance.
In his early years, he did use a knife, but he rarely used it later. Just like he used a firecrackle in his early years, and then gradually stopped using it. The key is that the opponent is different, and against innate people and ordinary celestials, his sword skills can still be used. Later, all the people he met were the creation of heavenly beings or pseudo-immortals, and the sword techniques he learned in his early years were nothing, and even he rarely used "Pure Bodhi", and the biggest effect was to offset the negative effects of the "Xirui Sutra".
Good at or not good at, the key is to compare with whom.
Zhang Yuelu is better at using swords than Qi Xuansu, and he is equipped with the "Cihang Pudu Sword Codex" and "Dragon and Tiger Sword Technique", and he can even be regarded as a master of swordsmanship. However, compared with the national teacher, Zhang Yuelu is just a beginner, just getting started.
Qi Xuansu focuses on a miscellaneous but not refined, comprehensive quality. In the same realm, the boxers are the best at playing with knives, and the people who are dancing gods are the most powerful in boxing.
Compared with people in the same realm, Qi Xuansu is indeed not good at using a knife, God rewards hard work, Qi Xuansu has not practiced a knife since he became a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist, why compare with those who have been immersed in this Tao for decades?
And the "magic knife" is more of a concept, emphasizing instinct and intuition, with or without a knife, the difference is not very big, mainly because Song Zheng used a knife back then, which fused the knife path, so it is called "magic knife". If Song Zheng used a firearm and integrated shooting skills, it would be called a "magic gun". These swords are not fundamental, and they are far less mysterious than the "Tianwen Nine Styles", the root of the "Magic Knife" is intuitive instinct, so Qi Xuansu's "Magic Knife" can also support him to use his fists, which is the same as the grass, wood, bamboo, and stone in the way of the sword can be used as a sword.
However, Qi Xuansu can say that he is good at using boxing, after all, this has not been put down, it is his main means of dealing with the enemy, and he has just learned the "Three Worlds Holy Fist".
In the final analysis, Qi Xuansu is mainly stronger in terms of comprehensive strength, this young assassin has suffered a big loss, dealing with Wufu is a completely different way of thinking than dealing with Wu Zhu, once the thinking cannot be changed, he will fall into passivity.
Qi Xuansu knew that assassins were usually dead soldiers, and talking to them about the benefits and harms, reasoning, and using gentle means would most of them not work, so he simply used some extreme methods, such as soul searching. He has the Archaeus Inheritance, and he can also carry out Earth Qi Retrospective and Soul Search, but the realm of the Monk Inheritance is not high, so he has to behead this assassin twice first, which greatly weakens his Divine Soul and makes him have no ability to resist, and then he can search for Souls.
However, in the realm of the gods, soul searching is also concretized.
In a blink of an eye, this assassin appeared in a place similar to a public court, and a ghost pawn dressed in the official uniform of the former dynasty slapped the hall in shock: "The great traitor and the evil have never been stubborn!" If you commit such a crime, you will not be punished, forgive him for not recruiting, and use the punishment! ”
The third-class officials held water and fire sticks, and there was a sound of "mighty".
Then there are all kinds of torture in ancient and modern times.
Qi Xuansu still looked at it coldly, he didn't have any mercy or mercy for a person who wanted to kill him.
Of course, this is not a real punishment, it can be understood as illusion, a kind of concrete falsification into truth, whether it is true or not, it all depends on whether you believe it or not.
At this time, the young assassin was stripped of all his defenses, and he was so confused that he couldn't even understand his sanity, and his faith naturally could not be his pillar.
At first, things went fairly well, and the young Assassin's origins were revealed.
Thanks to the Central Plains, many of the aborigines of the Southern Continent had a Central Plains name, and the Central Plains name of the Assassins was Long Jianwei. This name is very strange, the dragon gave birth to nine sons, among which there is Jianhui, and Jianhui will be repaid. Long Jianwei was the assassin who had been making waves here and there lately, and after assassinating several important people, he targeted Qi Xuansu.
Just as Qi Xuansu wanted to know who sent Long Jianxi to assassinate him, Long Jianxi disappeared inexplicably, and even Long Jianwei's spear disappeared with it.
Qi Xuansu, who was standing on the emperor willow, looked around and was at a loss for a moment: "What am I doing here?" ”
At this moment, the "Returning Lamp" that Qi Xuansu had been carrying suddenly shone brightly and shone into Qi Xuansu's thoughts.
Qi Xuansu suddenly remembered that just now, he had experienced a small range of time backtracking.
To be precise, the scope of this time regression is so small that it is only limited to Long Xuansu alone, it seems that Qi Xuansu's soul search has touched some kind of prohibition, and Long Jianwei was retraced by time and started from the beginning, so he disappeared into Qi Xuansu's divine domain, returning to the time node that was anchored before.
Qi Xuansu, as the person concerned, also lost this part of his memory.
It's not about changing the past.
The past cannot be changed, this is more like in the long river of time, Qi Xuansu and Long Jianwei are like two leaves moving forward in parallel, and then someone scoops up the leaf of Long Jianwei from the water and puts it back in the place where it was anchored before, while Qi Xuansu's leaf is still moving alone with the river, and the two sides are staggered.
Qi Xuansu lost part of his memory as a result, but the special effect of the "Returning Lantern" allowed him to see this scene again.
Of course, this method has great limitations, just like the exile and transfer of the immortals, there is a little strength to pick up a few weight things, the requirements for realm cultivation are very high, and they can also be interrupted by interference, the great witches have such a method, called "The Art of the Universe", and now Qi Xuansu can't reach it for the time being.
However, one thing is certain, this is an immortal method, and the pseudo-immortal definitely does not have this ability.
Qi Xuansu speculated from this that the judgment of the Absolute Holy Hall was right, Long Jianwei was a voter of an ancient god, and the ancient god blessed Long Jianwei with the spell of time regression, once Long Jianwei's life was in danger, or someone wanted to spy on the secrets of the ancient gods, as long as the corresponding requirements were met, this spell would be launched to backtrack Long Jianwei.
Although Long Jianwei was lost for a period of time, he retained the memory of this part of the time, and he could summarize the gains and losses, check and fill in the gaps, and reformulate the plan. Long Jianwei gained a lot this time, not only knowing that Qi Xuansu had a stone heart and was invulnerable, but also knew that Qi Xuansu had both martial arts and witch wishes, and next time he was prepared, he would not fall into passivity so easily.
If Qi Xuansu didn't "return to the Tibetan lamp" and lost this memory, then the next time he met Long Jianxi, he would still be as ignorant of it as he did when he first saw him, and back and forth, it would make Qi Xuansu fall into passivity.
As long as Long Jianxi is willing to keep trying, there will always be a time to succeed.
I have to say that this method is very ingenious. It's not that Qi Xuansu has an adventure by chance, for Long Jianwei, this ability to constantly go back is not a kind of chance adventure? As for the price that is secretly marked, that's all for later.
However, this method must also have great limitations, first of all, it is almost useless for immortals, and there is no miracle in the world that is made out of nothing, any miracle must be accompanied by exchange and payment, and the consumption of divine power by this means will not be a small amount.
With such a means, the reason behind the assassination of Qi Xuansu must not be simple.
Since it was an assassination, the result was nothing more than a successful assassination or a failed assassination.
What are the consequences of a successful assassination?
It must be the anger of the Daomen, and the West Daomen attaches great importance to it, and there must be an explanation. Qi Xuansu returned to the Southern Continent with the mission of investigating Kukulkan, but died in the Southern Continent, and Kukulkan was the biggest suspect.
In this sense, Kukulkan has no such motive.
Someone wants to borrow a knife to kill someone? Kill Kukulkan with the sword of the Daomen.
What are the consequences of a failed assassination?
Now that it is known that Long Jiansu can go back in time, it is difficult for Qi Xuansu to get any key information from Long Jianwei, and few people know that Qi Xuansu actually has a "Returning Lantern", and he will not count the variable of "Returning to Hidden Lantern" in advance. So from the perspective of the person behind the scenes, even if the assassination fails, Qi Xuansu will lose a memory and end up knowing nothing about the whole thing.
Meaning no cost.
Instead, you can rely on trying again and again to finally achieve a successful assassination result, and then use some means to frame the blame on Kukulkan.
The people behind the scenes did a lot of calculations, but they didn't expect that the Heavenly Master would hand over the "Returning Lamp" to Qi Xuansu, but instead revealed the biggest flaw in the first time.
That brings us back to the first speculation.
Who wants Kukulkan dead?
Qi Xuansu immediately remembered a person, or a god.
Ihichel.
It was Ichchel who took the initiative to find Qi Xuansu and revealed the information about Kukulkan to Qi Xuansu.
It can be said that Ichchel hopes to bring in the Daomen forces through Qi Xuansu.
As for Jinque's other news channels, this does not affect this inference.
Could Ichichel be behind this?
Maybe.
Many people always want to use Qi Xuansu as a chess piece to achieve certain goals. They always underestimated Qi Xuansu, thinking that they could hide Qi Xuansu, keep Qi Xuansu in the dark, and even play with it.
Zhou Mengyao is like this, and so is Ichichel.
But Qi Xuansu is not a very easy person to fool, he is just born with poor roots, not a problem with his brain, but his understanding is superior, his mind is sharp, and he will always detect a little clue.
Qi Xuansu did not trust Ichichel from the beginning. It's not that when he sees a beautiful woman complaining sadly, he wants to be enthusiastic and believe in this woman unconditionally, there is no such reason.
So when Qi Xuansu first started to investigate, even if he encountered a lot of things that he couldn't figure out, he didn't ask Ichchel. If he had asked, he might have been misled.
As for whether it was Ichichel or not, Qi Xuansu couldn't make an immediate judgment, and could only say that he was skeptical. It is also possible that Kukulkan or others took advantage of Qi Xuansu's psychology and predicted Qi Xuansu's prediction.
That is to say, Kukulkan is the most suspicious in the first layer, Qi Xuansu's ideas are in the second layer, and the people behind the scenes are in the third layer, which is also possible, so you can't make a rash judgment, you still have to find enough real evidence.
This assassination undoubtedly reminded Qi Xuansu that the situation here was more complicated than he imagined, there was something wrong with Kukulkan, and those forces that opposed Kukulkan were not necessarily clean and harmless.