Jiang Ru was slightly startled, Qing Luoyi saw her like this, and sneered: "Shouldn't you let me say it?" ”

Jiang Ru's expression returned to normal in an instant: "Do you think this is possible?" If it was really Zhao Xiao who killed Liang Shuo, the national teacher would not let this person go. ”

"That's right." Qing Luoyi tilted his face, and his eyes looked at Jiang Ru's face: "Your temperament seems to have changed a lot." ”

"Yes...... Jiang Ru's eyes were slightly empty: "I just understood one thing - no one can rely on it, and in the end I can only rely on myself." ”

"The Jiang family belongs to the Yongjia Liang clan, your idea can be regarded as deviant." Qing Luoyi asked, "It seems that Liang Shuo's death has made you figure it out a lot." ”

"It's not just him, either." Jiang Ru's gaze avoided.

Qing Luoyi seemed to have figured out something, and his eyes widened slightly: "Won't it?" ”

Jiang Ru collected her thoughts and asked, "Why did you inquire about Zhao Xiao's news?" ”

Qing Luoyi smiled lightly: "You also know that those who do our business are well-informed. It is not surprising that such a government office as the Jin Ding Division is presided over by the Marquis of Anyang, but the deacon who really works in it is a little-known newcomer, and now all parties in the capital are secretly inquiring about his origin. ”

"He is a student of Zhang Duanjing, the first seat of the Huaiying Pavilion." Jiang Ruyan said.

Qing Luoyi waved his hand: "Sister Jiang, if you prevaricate with this kind of nonsense again, don't come to me again in the future." ”

"And what exactly do you want to know?" Jiang Ru was a little impatient.

"For example, what he likes and dislikes, how high and low his cultivation is, how deep his mana is, what magic weapons and spells he is used to, and so on." Qing Luoyi stretched: "By the way, is he married, does he have a confidante?" ”

Jiang Ru said: "This person is not a woman, don't expect it." ”

"Oh? Why do you know so well? Qing Luoyi did not hide the temptation.

Jiang Ru ignored it, and said instead: "Zhao Xiao is a poor sour scholar who eats the ancients, and his mind is on magic. If you talk about cultivation, Zhao Huang Xuanzhu has not succeeded, but he has a lot of means, from painting charms and water to mandala rituals, almost all of them can be done. ”

"......I see," Qing Luoyi pondered.

Jiang Ruyan said: "If you really want to recruit Zhao Xiao, it is best to prepare a batch of spiritual material magic weapons, especially the magic weapons that are rare and come from the hands of famous craftsmen, which are the most appetizing to him." ”

Qing Luoyi said with a smile: "So, you didn't deal with Zhao Xiao in Xingluo County at the beginning?" ”

Jiang Ru had no intention of answering, and continued: "But I advise you not to play tricks in front of Zhao Xiao. ”

"Oh? Could it be that this person is scheming and calculating? Qing Luoyi asked.

Jiang Ruyan said: "If you really want to make friends with him, it's best not to think crookedly and be honest with each other." Don't say I didn't warn you. ”

"It seems that Sister Jiang really suffered a loss from Zhao Xiao." Qing Luoyi covered his mouth and smiled.

"Mine has already been said, it's your turn." Jiang Ru didn't answer, straight to the point.

Qing Luoyi laughed: "The person who connected the Zhou family with the Water Mansion is from the Phantom Wave Palace. ”

"That group of overseas Qi Refiners?" Jiang Ru was puzzled: "They guard a bunch of overseas islands, they are regarded as gods by the native people of Fanbang, and they have never been involved in the affairs of Kunlun Continent, even if they come to Kunlun Continent occasionally, it is nothing more than traveling and cultivating, how can they get involved in the affairs of Huaxu Kingdom for no reason?" ”

Qing Luoyi said: "Although there is no empirical evidence, there is gossip that the Zhou family is the descendant of a certain generation of palace masters of Phantom Wave Palace who stayed in Kunlun Continent. ”

Jiang Ru was silent, and Qing Luoyi continued: "As for the purpose of the Phantom Wave Palace, Sister Jiang don't ask me. If Liang Guoshi doesn't like it, then he might as well go to the ocean and kill the Phantom Wave Palace directly. Thinking about it, with the cultivation of the first person in Huaxu Kingdom, it will not be a problem to behead the current palace master. ”

"The first seat has its own decision, and you don't need to bother." Jiang Ru asked again: "Has this Phantom Wave Palace Gate ever haunted the ghost market?" ”

"Two or three times, but don't expect me to find him." Qing Luoyi said: "Phantom Wave Palace is the best at illusion, and I can't determine whether the other party is male or female." I once bought a batch of Fanbang natives from him. It's a pity that the taste is still not as mellow as the man in Kunlunzhou. ”

Jiang Ru couldn't help but glance at the other party with disgust, Qing Luoyi was not ashamed at all, and said calmly: "Okay, I won't leave you to eat, hurry back and report to Liang Guoshi." The Phantom Wave Palace has uncharacteristically intervened in Kunlun Continent, and it also involves the relatives of a country, so it is a round of bloody rain and a change of dynasty. ”

……

"Phantom Wave Palace? They're them? ”

Outside the bamboo hall in the depths of the Earth Lung Mountain, Liang Tao held the cloud pattern jade Ruyi in his hand, and after listening to Jiang Ru's report, he said indifferently: "It's just a group of monks who fled overseas a long time ago, and they occupied a few blessed lands on the sea, so they claimed to be immortals. even relied on pretending to be a god and a ghost to deceive the native people of Fanbang, leaving Kunlun Continent and other places of good fortune, the meteorological pattern is inevitably narrow. ”

Liang Tao pondered for a moment and looked at Jiang Ru: "What do you think?" ”

Jiang Ru lowered his eyebrows and lowered his head, and his tone was humble: "The Phantom Wave Palace has lived overseas for a long time, and I am afraid that they don't know enough about Kunlun Continent, and they don't dare to openly intervene in the affairs of Huaxu Kingdom if they have the first seat here." ”

"There's some truth to that." Liang Tao then said: "The ancestor of the Zhou family was in the Tianxia Dynasty, but he was just a group of smuggler salt dealers, relying on the troubled times to spend a lot of money and fund military supplies, and he made great achievements at the beginning of Huaxu's founding of the country, and he took a fancy to the current lord of the country a few decades ago. ”

Jiang Ru asked: "Could it be that the Zhou family's planning for nearly a hundred years is all fueled by the Phantom Wave Palace?" ”

"Not necessarily, in the early years of the Zhou family, they were not able to do anything, although they were the founding nobles, their status and power were not grand." Liang Tao sneered: "The combination of the current lord and the Zhou family was originally facilitated by Zhu Ziwen, at that time, the lord of the country had not yet ascended the throne and was not in the climate, and even I did not expect today's changes.

From this point of view, it is better to say that the Phantom Wave Palace found that the Zhou family had ascended to the sky in Huaxu Kingdom, so as to find these poor relatives. I feel that I can rely on that shallow blood relationship to implicate and get a piece of the pie in Huaxu Kingdom. ”

Jiang Ru said cautiously: "But the Phantom Wave Palace has contacts with various water mansions overseas, and now it is obvious that they are colluding to cut off the mutual market with our Chongxuan Pavilion. ”

"The mutual market is a mutually beneficial move, not to mention that the island occupied by the Phantom Wave Palace is not as rich in products and manpower as Kunlun Continent after all." Liang Tao said: "In order to inherit it for a long time, it is common sense for the Phantom Wave Palace to return to Kunlun Continent. ”

"What is the first one going to do with the Phantom Wave Palace?" Jiang Ru asked.

Liang Tao looked at Jiang Ru, with a hint of appreciation and curiosity in his eyes: "Jiang Ru, you wouldn't talk to me like this in the past." ”

"The disciple is rude and offensive, please be the first to punish him." Jiang Ru hurriedly bowed.

"I'm not to blame." Liang Tao said: "It's just that after Liang Shuo's death, you didn't re-conclude the immortal deed with any of my Liang disciples, what is the purpose of such diligence?" ”

"The disciples of the clan can be protected by the Chongxuan Pavilion, and they should serve with all their hearts." Jiang Ru replied: "However, the son died like a star, and the disciple really has no intention of forming a contract with others to practice with others, and only hopes to be able to practice on his own and ascend to the cave sky." ”

Liang Tao nodded with an imperceptible amplitude, and then asked, "The ghost market is a place where demons and evil gather, how did you find out the news?" ”

Jiang Ruyan said: "Qing Luoyi is conditional on Zhao Xiao's news. ”

"Zhao Xiao?" Liang Tao raised his eyebrows: "Why did she want to inquire about Zhao Xiao?" ”

"I think it's because Zhao Xiao served as the deacon of the Jinding Division, and the Jinding Division gathered spiritual materials from the country, which involved great interests and attracted the attention of the ghost market." Jiang Ru said.

"Really?" Liang Tao was skeptical: "As far as I know, Zhao Xiao only focuses on refining the book runes, and the payment of the Jinding Division is controlled by the Marquis of Anyang. If you really want to make a profit from it, you should also be looking for Anyang Hou, what does it have to do with Zhao Xiao? ”

Jiang Ru was stunned, she also recalled, Qing Luoyi's attention to Zhao Xiao seemed to be a little unnecessary. However, after thinking about it, with Liang Tao's dignity, it seems that he is particularly clear about Zhao Xiao's current situation, isn't this even more strange?

"It's kind of interesting." Liang Tao played with Yu Ruyi: "I remember that Qing Luoyi is a half-demon? ”

"Yes." Jiang Ru lowered his head and replied: "His father doesn't know who it is, and his mother is a snake demon." This person is proficient in the art of seduction, and is accustomed to capturing men's yang energy. ”

"Snake demon, snake demon......" Liang Tao tapped Yu Ruyi, as if he thought of something, and then smiled: "I see, but it can be regarded as using some scheming." Then I might as well count it out. ”

Jiang Ru didn't understand what she heard, but she lowered her head and didn't dare to speak.

……

Several sturdy soldiers pulled the winch together, and with a small click, the bowstring of a heavy bed crossbow was slowly pulled apart, and an arrow comparable to a pike gun was attached to the bowstring, and the arrows were cold.

With a command in the distance, the bed crossbow shot arrows. A cold light passed quickly, and before the naked eye could catch up, the arrow was driven into a rammed earth wall, and then countless clods of earth and gravel were blasted on the other side of the wall, raising large clouds of dust.

The crowd of onlookers in the school field exclaimed, Zhao Xiao was in it, holding his chin and nodding silently, and General Wei Xiuwen on the side exclaimed:

"This ballista is far more powerful than before, Deacon Zhao is really wonderful!"

After the completion of the suppression of bandits in Xingluo County, General Wei returned to Dongshengdu to report on his work, and as one of the heroes, General Wei was also rewarded, and at the behest of the national lord, he prepared to build a new army in the capital.

The new army is different from the usual, in addition to allocating talisman soldiers to ordinary soldiers, it is also clear that monks accompany the army to help in battle, and there is a set of tactics for monks to cooperate with the military formation.

In fact, the monks accompanied the army to help in the war, not only in the War of the Five Kingdoms, but also back to the time when the Tianxia Dynasty opened up its territory.

However, since ancient times, people who cultivate immortals and learn the Tao have always avoided earthly killings and soldiers, which may be a bit of pride and arrogance, but more I am afraid that they are still trying to save their lives.

After all, most of the people who are interested in the immortal path live in seclusion and stay away from the world, even if they are in danger, they also pay attention to the way to avoid, rather than blindly fighting bravely and ruthlessly, relying on spells and spells to fight with people to the death.

Therefore, although there were emperors and monarchs in all dynasties who recruited immortal cultivators for their use, either there were few responders, or a group of warlocks who were eager to meet their expectations were recruited.

When he arrived in the Tianxia Dynasty, he simply recruited sorcerers and monks directly with high-ranking officials and set up official positions, such as praise officials, Kanyu masters, waiting teachers, curse forbidden students, etc., each with its own hands.

As a result, the fashion of Kunlun Continent changed greatly, and the turmoil of the Great War of the Five Kingdoms caused most of the monks not to seek the immortal way, but to pursue the power of magic. Huaxu State set up a system of pavilions, and it was more effective in the previous dynasty, and the cultivated ones were not so much monks as pure warlocks.

And after a long period of expedition, coupled with the verification of the bandits in Xingluo County, General Wei can figure out how to combine the monks with the military formation. He personally wrote the strategy for governing the army and the training of soldiers, and soon after he wrote to the lord of the country, he received the will to build a new army.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the new Jinding Division established by the imperial court is to cooperate with the preparation of the new army. If all kinds of new weapons and weapons are to be put into the army, they must first be inspected by General Wei himself.

This time, Zhao Xiao created a batch of talisman arrows, and specially brought them to the school outside the city to test the power, and let General Wei witness it.

When everyone came to the rammed earth wall, they saw that the crossbow bolts had pierced the wall, and instead of a small hole in the back, there was a large pit that had been blown open, making the rammed earth wall itself loose and fragile.

"This is a talisman arrow dedicated to destroying the walls of the fort." Zhao Xiao introduced: "Once the runic arrow hits the wall, the spell that is condensed into it will be activated, destroying the wall from the inside out. Even in the face of a fortified city, the combined force of multiple runic arrows is enough to blast a gap in the city wall. ”

"Good, good!" General Wei praised repeatedly: "In the past, we used flying stone carts to smash the city, throwing large stones over, leaving only a white spot on the wall of people's houses, and we lacked such siege weapons. ”

"In fact, it is not a bad idea for the monk to use a spell to destroy the city wall." Zhao Xiao said.

"Are you talking about the immortal general, or the divine sword?" General Wei broke through Zhao Xiao's voice: "It's not impossible to break the city by magic, but when you get to the real battlefield, the monks on the opposite side won't watch you cast spells." The monks in the army are more precious than the armored iron horses, and if you can't decide the victory or defeat in one fell swoop, you may not be able to achieve success if you rashly ask the monks to take action. I learned this lesson myself in Starfall County. ”

Zhao Huang knew that General Wei was talking about Liang Shuo, and originally expected him to summon the immortal general to deal with the swordsman, but instead fell into the other party's calculations. The battle on the battlefield is not just a competition to see whose cultivation power is higher.

Then everyone inspected the newly made talisman artifacts of the Jin Ding Division, and Zhao Xiao gave a batch of jade-inlaid talisman knives to the new army generals, and everyone got gifts, and everyone smiled, and some people simply called Zhao Huang brothers.

"I haven't seen you for a while, but Deacon Zhao is a lot more shrewd." General Wei said with a smile.

"Shame! is also learning while watching with Hou Ye. Zhao Xiao replied.

"Why should Deacon Zhao be humble, at the moment Jin Dingsi is very hot in Dongsheng, I got a talisman knife from you, I'm afraid that someone will ask me for help in the next day, and ask you for a few more." General Wei said.

Zhao Xiao had to say with a bitter face: "The Jin Ding priest made the magic object talisman knife to serve the country, General Wei and you are all members of the new army, and the talisman knife will be distributed in the future." What's more, now that Jinding Division is busy, I really don't have time to socialize. ”

"Understood." General Wei handed over a few volumes: "Here is my newly written book of the art of war, which has not yet mentioned the art of war, Deacon Zhao can take a look at it, if you have unique opinions, I hope to give you advice." ”