Chapter 125: The people of the Qinghe Cui clan
Among the many forces that pursued and killed Shen Jing and Su Yao, if you want to pick out who is the most persistent, it is none other than the two clans belonging to the line of the Great Prince and the forces of the generals of the Three Pillar Kingdoms.
As for why the imperial court wanted to exterminate the five tribes in the East China Sea and even spare no effort to hunt down and kill their remnants for 20 years, most people and even the old courtiers probably only knew the superficial reasons.
The secret of the five clans of the East China Sea? For the beating of Qizhou Gao's?
Compared with the other princes, the advantage of the eldest prince is age, and the disadvantage is also age.
Because of his age, the eldest prince Yuanzhi experienced the turmoil of the year, so he knew a lot of secrets that others didn't know.
In fact, the reason why he made up his mind to kill them all back then was that his emperor father bore the brunt of his selfishness. In the following years, the pursuit and killing belonged to the Heavenly Prison Division and the Earth Net, and the emperor himself didn't care about what benefits he could get.
It is precisely because of the emperor's selfishness in this matter that he even made him kill Shen Quan.
If it is true, there are still some in-laws between Shen Guo and several princes and even emperors, but the world is always so unexpected. The emperor wants the Shen family to die, and there are many Shen conditions.
Yuan Zhi spared no effort to kill Shen Kuang, and it was precisely in order to add the greatest weight to his future success in ascending the throne, what mysterious Xuanji Mountain, what building outside the building, he actually didn't care. As long as he can ascend the throne, why is it difficult to use the power of the court to clean up all forces?
For this reason, Yuan Zhi was harsh on Peng Yu's practices in Meiwu City. On the surface, it is still calm, but there is actually anger in the heart.
It was also Yuan Zhen's inexplicable anger, and it was aimed at Peng Yu, that made the rest of the forces attached to the eldest prince dare not hide.
The announcement of the world to assist the prince had already been issued, and it was a great sensation at that time.
Lou Wailou chose to announce this news at such a sensitive time, and the meaning is self-evident, so this also makes all forces begin to consider whether to spare no effort to hunt down and kill the two remnants of the Shen family in the East China Sea.
For several princes, if the benefit of this move will inevitably lead to their praise in front of the emperor, but that is limited. On the contrary, if they have the ability to recruit people to come to the building, this is a big help.
So after that, although the forces behind the rest of the princes were still sparing no effort to find the traces of Shen Jing and Su Yao, they were obviously a lot more relaxed.
However, the number of people who came to intercept Shen Jing and Su Yao did not decrease because of this. More and more Jianghu forces are involved, and no one knows what the final result will be.
For many people, it doesn't matter so much to kill or not, as long as it's not them who die.
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When they continued to hurry, Shen Kuhai and the old monk Kukai still walked a little ahead.
It's just that this time the two of them just finished saying what they wanted to say, so they didn't say anything for a long time, but the communication between Su Yao and Ming Nian behind them began to increase.
After a few conversations, Ming Nian felt that the female benefactor beside her knew a lot of interesting things to see, and after those stories were told through her, they were even more touching.
Listening to the stories of the rivers and lakes, Mingnian wandered thousands of miles, fluttering and flickering, and felt as if he was in the middle of the rivers and lakes.
The old monk Kukai would occasionally look back at his little disciple, and when he saw Ming Nian walking in a daze, he would smile, and he would not scatter the small rivers and lakes in Ming Nian's heart.
The mountain roads became wider and wider, and there were more and more stars and moons in the sky, and the sky soon darkened.
The old monk Kuhai told Shen Kuhai that they were not far from Shuiyue Town, because there were many people in Shuiyue Town, so it was also extremely lively every night, and there was no need to worry about the closure of the shops in the town in the past.
The group of four continued on their way, and when they passed a poplar forest, the night wind gradually rose, and the leaves were rattling.
When the breeze rises, it blows away the heat between heaven and earth.
When the breeze stopped, the woods were very quiet, and it was surprisingly quiet.
Fleeing all the way had already made Shen Guo have a keen sense of smell, and when the breeze stopped, ripples suddenly appeared in his heart, and a trace of uneasiness quietly came.
Ambush? This was the first reaction in Shen Jing's mind.
However, he asked himself about the people he met along the way after he got off the boat with Su Yao, except for the two monks next to him, an old man and a young man, and a few guests in the tea stall, he didn't meet anyone else, so it stands to reason that the traces of the two should not be exposed.
Shen Jing didn't think there was any danger to the two monks, one old and one young, and Shen Jing didn't feel anything wrong with the mountain tea stall, so this made him suspicious of the trace of uneasiness in his heart.
Shen Jing did not relax, and at the same time he didn't seem to care, he was actually paying careful attention to the wind and grass around him.
In addition, the safety of the old monk Kuhai and the little monk Mingnian is another issue that Shen Jing is worried about.
If the feeling of uneasiness is just that he is suspicious, it is fine, but if someone is really ambushed, Shen Guo cannot guarantee the safety of the two. So Shen Guo began to hesitate, hesitating whether to let the two of them leave first.
After all, the target of those people was him and Su Yao, and they would probably not allocate people to deal with the two monks.
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Jing slowly spoke: "Master Kukai." ”
After hearing Shen Kuhai's words, the old monk Kuhai slowed down and replied softly: "Master Jiang, what's the matter?" ”
Shen Kuhai simply stopped, and the old monk Kuhai also stopped, as did Su Yao and Ming Nian behind him.
"There is a master to solve doubts along the way, Jiang Su is grateful, but my sister and I may not be able to walk with the master anymore on the follow-up road." Shen Kuang's words were concise and clear.
The old monk Kuhai still had a kind smile on his face, he didn't ask Shen the reason, but said slowly: "I can't talk about gratitude, it's Jiang Shizhu who has his own wisdom roots." When cause and effect are solved, it is a great good. In this way, then the next road will be one step ahead of me. ”
After speaking, the old monk Kuhai stood with one hand and gave a salute to Shen Jing and Su Yao.
Shen Kuang folded his hands and returned the salute, and so did Su Yao.
Regarding the sudden separation between the master and this Jiang benefactor, Ming Nian was still a little confused. However, he guessed that most of the two donors were no longer on the same path as them, so they had to be separated here.
Although he was a little regretful, Ming Nian obediently walked to the master's side and gave each of the two Jiang donors a salute, and then continued to hurry with the master.
Next year, I remember that the master once said that you and I are both passers-by. It is not easy to accompany each other on a journey, and when you are separated, you don't have to ask more about the reason, you will see you again if you have a fate, so Mingnian also does not ask the reason.
Shuiyue Town was already not far away, and far away on the road, Ming Nian could even see a faint light.
When Shen Guo said goodbye to the old monk, Su Yao guessed the reason.
After the old monk and the little monk left, Shen Jing immediately pulled Su Yao to hide in the woods next to the road, and through the shadow of the night, the figures of the two were well covered.
Su Yao asked softly, "Is there anyone following behind?" ”
Shen Jing replied: "There is always a lingering sense of danger in my heart, so for the sake of safety, I let Master Kukai and Ming Nian leave first." ”
"Could it be the people in the tea stall?"
Shen Jing shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, those people's cultivation is not high, if it is really them, it will be easy to deal with." ”
After that, Su Yao didn't ask any more questions, and she, like Shen Jing, began to pay careful attention to the movements around her.
Sure enough, there was a rush of heavy footsteps from the other side of the road that the four had walked before. After a short while, more than a dozen men in black stopped not far from the two of them.
When Shen Guo saw the more than ten black figures, his heart sank, because the cultivation of this group of people was extremely high, and there were actually five people who had attained perfection in the Guiyuan Realm, and the rest of them were also cultivators in the pre-Guiyuan Realm.
Moreover, the double swords behind the five people of the Great Perfection of the Guiyuan Realm also showed their identities, the black sword attendant of the Qinghe Cui clan, and the feeling of oppression Shen Qian vaguely remembered.
If Shen Guo is the only one who uses the catkins body technique and the night to cover up, it is still possible to escape from this place. But now there is Su Yao, if the two of them want to get out of the whole body, it is actually very difficult.
A frontal attack is even more self-defeating, so the only way for the two to survive is to take advantage of the night to escape before the Cui clan's people find them.
Su Yao, who had been paying attention to the movements around her, frowned unconsciously after seeing the more than ten figures, as if she was a little strange. She turned her head and glanced at Shen Kuang, who clenched his dark teeth in his hand, as if facing a great enemy.
The person headed by more than ten people is just a person in the early stage of the Guiyuan Realm, and he can't see his face clearly because he is masked, but judging from the voice, he should not be very old.
In the night, one of his subordinates bowed down and whispered to the man in charge: "Childe, we followed us all the way and the figures of the two disappeared, and the subordinates felt that they were very likely to notice us and hid." ”
After hearing the words of his subordinates, the man in black at the head smiled disdainfully: "Hide? Today, wherever they hide, they must die. Have you found the identities of the two bald donkeys, one big and one small? ”
"If you go back to your words, you've already found out. The old monk was a monk in the Tingzen Temple on Jinghua Mountain, and the little monk was his disciple. ”
"Jinghua Mountain Listening Zen Temple? What a broken temple, I thought it was some kind of powerful helper. A few of you quickly searched the neighborhood. Want to hide? I'll see how long you can hide. ”
After he finished speaking, except for the five black sword attendants, the rest of them knelt down on one knee to receive the order, and then the two of them quickly scattered in a team.
Shen Qing, who had been paying attention to the movement over there, quickly grabbed Su Yao's arm and cautiously swept towards the depths of the jungle before those people dispersed.
Shen Kuang and Su Yao were ready to make a detour to Shuiyue Town as soon as possible, because only by escaping there could the two of them fish in troubled waters and have a slight chance of survival.
Maybe the situation was urgent, or maybe the heartstrings of both of them were tight, so neither of them reacted to the fact that Shen Jing had been pulling Su Yao's arm.
Before distancing herself from the people of the Qinghe Cui clan, Su Yao glanced back at those people from a distance.
The five black sword attendants standing still were particularly conspicuous.
Facing the people of the Cui clan who were chasing after him, Shen Kuang used the catkins body method to the extreme, and the speed of rushing instantly increased a lot.
Because he had to deal with the fish death after being discovered, Shen Guo didn't dare to squander the true qi in the sea of qi in his body too much.
Su Yao was grabbed by Shen Jing like that, and she could feel Shen Jing's nervousness.