Chapter 163: The Old Man of the Past
Zhao Xiao returned to the big tent, looking inward with a subtle expression, Lu Wangji hugged Yaoqin horizontally, the sound of strings flowed through the border like a spring, rippling open, and he saw a vague figure sitting on the marching couch, which was not real to the naked eye.
"Phantom Feather Butterfly? Your Gu technique has indeed improved a lot compared to back then, and you have actually reproduced this lost and broken Gu technique in the world. Zhao Xiao's expression was slightly serious.
Withdrawing the spell, Miao Suo Luo showed her shape, her legs were folded and cocked, her jade feet swayed lightly, she supported her chin with one hand, her appearance was charming, she looked at Zhao Xiao and said: "Zhao Xiaolangjun back then, Now he has grown into an adult." How did you grow a beard? Isn't it fashionable for Huaxu men to shave their beards and clean their faces? ”
Zhao Xiao touched the beard around his mouth, and couldn't help laughing: "Being in the army, I don't have time to pay attention to my appearance." If it weren't for the invasion of your Jiuli army, I might still be in Dongshengdu at this moment. ”
Miao Sara also smiled: "Are you complaining about my sister and me?" ”
"I just didn't expect that you would actually participate in the surprise attack on Dantu County." Zhao Xiao asked: "I wonder how long the grain and grass in the city can be supported now?" ”
"I'm not in charge of these trivial matters, and I don't bother to ask." Miao Suluo waved his hand indifferently: "But don't expect to trap them to death in ten days, the people of Jiuli Kingdom are crazy, and it is not uncommon to eat human flesh to satisfy their hunger." ”
"A barbarian is indeed a barbarian." Zhao Xiao sneered twice, and then asked: "You don't stick to the city and risk coming to my camp, do you want to surrender?" ”
"It's rare for old people to see each other, so I'm not allowed to come to reminisce about my sister?" Miao Suo Luo looked at Lu Wangji and was surprised: "Zhao Xiaolangjun also learned badly, came out to fight, and brought such a female pianist." ”
"This is the Egret Forgetfulness Daoist of Fengming Valley." Zhao Xiao introduced: "I advise you to pay attention to your words, whether you can leave or not is all in her thoughts." ”
"What? When you grow so big, you still need someone else to take care of you? Miao Sara was interested: "Or is it that your injuries have not healed at the moment and you can't cast spells?" ”
Zhao Xiao didn't hide it: "Your great witch who can turn into a wild boar, the god behind him took the initiative and directly lifted my altar." This kind of style of doing things is rare to see. ”
"His name is Shera Xiao, and he is the number one master of the White Fang Division." "It's not just you, I'm weird too. The gods of the southern soil have been silent for a long time, and the Tianxia Dynasty has been firmly suppressed. ”
Zhao Xiao's face was expressionless, Miao Suo Luo stood up and approached, Lu forgot to hook his fingers, and Miao Su Luo was immediately trapped in the formation blockade and could not move.
"If you want to talk, talk well, don't make small moves." Zhao Xiao was quite jealous of Miao Suoluo.
When Zhao was seven or eight years old, Miao Suo Luo traveled to his hometown of Xuanwu County in search of a rare insect. Miao Sula's appearance back then was not much different from today, and she haunted the countryside, which naturally attracted many rangers and prodigal sons.
These people were all confused by Miao Suoluo's use of Gu arts, and they were willing to die for her, and Miao Suluo had few scruples about acting, so they quarreled with the local big families when they came and went.
At that time, Xuanwu County was full of homeless troops to build forts, and when Miao Suo Luo gathered people to offend, the local wealthy families naturally ordered all the troops and horses to try to take her down.
The terrible thing about Gu is that no one knows when Miao Suluo made a move, and when the big family led the troops out for a long time, the subordinates fell ill one after another, and some of them went crazy and began to slash and kill their comrades.
The big family knew that he had provoked a powerful master, so he hurriedly sent someone to invite Zhao Wei, Zhao Wei's grandfather.
Zhao Wei found that someone was playing tricks, and after using Fu Shui to save everyone, he opened the altar to practice the law, found Miao Suo Luo himself, and arrested him.
Originally, the big man wanted to catch the troublemaker, so he threw him into the dung pit to break the spell, and then hung it in the scorching sun and whipped it, and tortured it severely. But when he saw Miaosara, he was very lustful and planned to take her as a concubine.
Zhao Wei knew that if Miao Suo Luo was let go of him, hundreds of people in the big family would probably become a breeding ground for nourishing Gu worms. No matter how much the big man pleaded, Zhao Wei refused to release her and imprisoned her in the cellar of the shrine.
At that time, Zhao Xiao didn't know anything about Gu arts, and out of curiosity, he quietly went to find Miao Suluo who was imprisoned.
Miao Suluo was bent on escaping, but she found that she was far from Zhao Wei's opponent, so she turned her mind to Zhao Huang and took the opportunity of explaining the Gu technique to lure Zhao Huang to lift the ban for her.
Although Zhao Huang had already followed his grandfather to study the Dharma scriptures, he was still young and ignorant, and he really let him lift the ban left by his grandfather.
Once Miao Suluo got out of trouble, with the idea of revenge, he directly kidnapped Zhao Huang and escaped into the mountains and forests.
This move not only used Zhao Wei as a bait to attract alien insects, but also attracted Zhao Wei by the way, so that the two of them would fight each other after they met, and Miao Suo Luo would take the opportunity to take advantage of the fisherman.
Fortunately, Zhao Wei came in time to rescue Zhao Huang after the insect was severely injured, and Miao Suluo also took the opportunity to take away the insect and fled from then on.
As for Zhao Xiao, he was trapped in a spider web, hanging upside down in a cave, and coexisted with countless corpses and bones, and almost died. After being rescued by his grandfather, he fell seriously ill and was extremely afraid of Miaosara, and he couldn't forget this experience when he grew up.
Today's Zhao Huang is naturally not what it used to be, but in the face of Miao Suoluo, he still has to be careful, but his current injuries are not healed, he can't perform surgery, and he has almost no power to protect himself.
"Alas, that's what is wrong with men." Miao Suo Luo tried to break free from the shackles, and her posture was soft: "Zhao Xiaolangjun, with a new love, have you forgotten your old love?" ”
"You didn't venture to my military camp to gossip." Zhao Xiao laughed unintentionally: "Say, what are you going to do?" ”
"I'm here to repay the favor." Miao Suo Luo threw a wink at Zhao Huang: "If it weren't for your help, I wouldn't have been able to catch the Golden-winged Dragon Moth back then." ”
"Repay the favor?" Zhao Xiao simply said: "Simple, let the Jiuli soldiers and horses of Dantu County go out of the city and surrender." ”
"Don't talk to death." Miao Sara smiled: "Shera Xiao has been preparing to go out of the city to attack the camp in the past few days, and he ordered the Great Witch of Wuteng Village to use rattan wood to drill through the tunnel, intending to attack your camp in one fell swoop. ”
Zhao Xiao was secretly shocked in his heart, and looked at Lu Wangji: "Did Daoyou notice anything wrong?" ”
I saw Lu Wangji sitting on the ground, holding down the strings with his ten fingers without plucking, and after a while, he got up and said: "There are indeed grass and tree roots extending out of the city in the direction of Dantu County, and there are also many digging movements. ”
"How? Sister, I didn't lie to you, did I? Myosara's body spun in place, and she didn't know how to break free.
"What the hell do you want to do?" Zhao Huang asked: "Don't say anything like repaying your kindness, you should know what the consequences will be if you tell me about the movements of Jiuli Kingdom." ”
Miao Suluo sat on the marching couch and patted the position next to him: "Come and sit with my sister, and my sister will tell you." ”
Zhao Huang thought about it again and again, and came to sit side by side with Miao Suo Luo on the marching couch, the other party touched his beard a little mischievously, Zhao Xiao secretly rubbed the contract ring on his wrist, guarding against Miao Suo Luo waiting for an opportunity to go down.
"Have you had enough?" Zhao Xiao was not very comfortable.
"Sheroro pretended to be a god, saying that your life was short." Miao Suluo pinched Zhao Xiao's cheek: "Now that I see you, I can be sure that he is fabricated out of thin air, full of thoughts of merit." ”
Zhao Xiao understood: "It's quite difficult to come to Dantu County, you thousands of soldiers and horses are attacking the city in the hinterland of Huaxu Kingdom, and the local people will definitely resist, and you can't hold on to Dantu County all the time." ”
"Fei Zozao is going crazy, driving the people in the city every day to fortify the city and dig tunnels." Miao Suo Luo said: "He is the general of your Huaxu Kingdom after the rebellion of the Three Princes, he took refuge in the Jiuli Kingdom, and he was looked down upon, if he can't fight for credit this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to stay in the Jiuli Kingdom." ”
"No wonder you directly chose a key place like Dantu County." Zhao Xiao asked again: "But these are not the reasons for you to come, I want to know, how much benefit you can get from this move?" ”
Miao Sara crossed her arms and said, "You should remember, right? I am a Gu Master from the Valley of Hundred Flowers, unlike the various tribes of the Southern Land, the Valley of Hundred Flowers does not serve a certain god, in our opinion, every grass and tree has spirituality, and this is the foundation of Gu art.
In the past, the Hundred Flowers Valley relied on its Gu technique to compete with other tribes. But over the years, the movement of the gods of the southern earth has become more and more frequent, and in the past, they almost did not interfere with the earthly world with their own hands, and everything was done by Wu Zhu, but this situation may have to change. ”
"Like the god that Sherroo worshipped?" Zhao Xiao said tentatively.
"The Great White Fang." Miao Suluo looked at Zhao Huang and said: "I still remember that the predecessors relayed that when the Tianxia Dynasty annexed the southern soil and opened mountains to build roads, the result was to shake the earth's leylines and disturb the gods. The gods were furious, causing a landslide, causing countless deaths and injuries. When the Tianxia Imperial Court heard of this, it sent a group of salute officials and curse forbidden students to come and suppress the gods of the southern soil. ”
"It's called bullet pressure, but it's actually a crime and a punishment." Zhao Xiao said: "The gods worshiped by the Shixi Department bore the brunt of the attack, and were dragged out of the lair directly, laying down thirty-six god-killing nails, and were punished by ninety-nine eighty-one days of wind and thunder, and finally all the gods were destroyed. Subsequently, most of the departments such as Heitong Man and Feitou Man were also like this. ”
"So, it's no wonder that you, the descendant of the praise officer, will attract the gods of the southern soil to take action, you are a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh." Miao Suo Luo tapped Zhao Xiao lightly.
"After the Tianxia Dynasty praised the gods of the southern soil back then, he set up the Southern Fire Monarch according to reason." Zhao Huang said: "Breaking the evil customs, revitalizing education, and letting all the people in the south have something to rely on, it is also the suppression of the luck of the gods of the south soil. In this way, the suppression that has been exerted on the gods of the southern earth can no longer be sustained. ”
"Do you know the reason for the Jiuli Kingdom's large-scale military mobilization this time?" Myosarata asked.
"That demon king horn in the Horned Cave, right?" Zhao Xiao smiled: "Hua Xu Guo is not ignorant. ”
"A mere demon king horn is not worthy of such fanfare in the Jiuli Kingdom." Miao Suluo said: "I have heard some news that the Ten Witches of the Nine Li Kingdom plan to summon the snake god to descend to earth, and the demon king horn is the body of the snake god. ”
Zhao Xiao's face changed when he heard the news, the news that the demon king was about to break the seal was enough to make Hua Xu Kingdom very nervous. Now I heard that the Ten Witches of Feng Fu also summoned the snake god to descend to earth, and this situation greatly exceeded Zhao Xiao's expectations.
Generally speaking, the gods of the southern soil, whether they are demons or ghosts, spirits or monsters, are all hidden mountains and rivers, they are originally in the mortal world, but they rarely show up, and it doesn't matter if they go down to the mortal world. If you have to be canonized, listed in the ceremony, and can also master the mountain and river leyline talismans, you can count it as a land.
In addition, there is another type of deity, which is the natural creation of heaven and earth, and is inherently sacred, and is in charge of the law, and its power is far-reaching.
The Heavenly Emperor Taiyi, the Five Virtues of the Great Monarch, and the Hundred Gods of the Emperor respected by the celebrant officials of the Tianxia Dynasty are exactly this kind of innate sacredness.
However, unlike all kinds of mortal deities, mountain gods and water gods, these innate gods are selfless, selfless, desireless, and unsipated, so that they can dominate the heavens and the earth. The salute official went up to the heart of heaven and set up all kinds of rituals and rituals, so that he could do the Dharma on behalf of the heavens.
However, there are also a very small number of innate divine beings who will be infected by the beliefs of sentient beings and give birth to a selfish spirit. This generation lives longer than the world, but has selfish desires, but also controls the law, if the behavior is partial, it will often cause great disasters.
It's just that most of these gods are seen in the writings of the ancients, and the Tianxia Dynasty doesn't seem to have appeared.
And now that he heard that the snake god had descended to earth, Zhao Huang immediately thought of it, could it be that this snake god was also an innate divine who was dyed by the faith of the mortal world?
"Look at you like this, and I know I'm not looking for the wrong person." Miao Suluo propped his chin and looked at Zhao Huang with interest: "I don't like any snake gods, originally the southern soil is enough to be a miasma, and now there is such a god, I'm afraid that the Valley of Hundred Flowers will no longer be able to gain a foothold." ”
"For such an important matter, you don't seem to have found the right person for me." Zhao Xiao knew very well that the situation was serious, but he still pretended to be normal.
"No matter how powerful the Ten Witches are, they still have to break the seal and rescue the demon king, so that they have the ability to summon the snake god to go down to earth." Miao Suo Luo said: "As long as you Huaxu Kingdom guards the Pujia Pass, so that the Jiuli Kingdom has no chance to take advantage of it." If the Ten Witches want to go to the Horn Cave alone, they have to take a great risk. Don't talk about others, you Huaxu Kingdom also has a Liang Guoshi. ”
This is actually the current confrontation between the two countries. In any case, Hua Xu Guo wanted to force the army of Jiuli Kingdom away from Pujia Pass, because Jiaoyu Cave was near Guancheng.
"For the sake of the Valley of Hundred Flowers, you even did not hesitate to sell confidential military information and sit back and watch the defeat of the Jiuli Kingdom." Zhao Xiao looked at Miao Suoluo: "Your selfishness is really the same as always. ”
"It's you." Miao Suluo lightly touched the tip of Zhao Xiao's nose: "You are no longer as innocent and cute as when you were a child, you are full of calculations, and I don't like it, sister." ”
"Now that I am the commander of an army, I cannot tolerate my naivety and naivety." Zhao Xiao's face turned pale.
Miao Suluo rolled her eyes: "You men, for the sake of power, fame and fortune, you know that fighting and killing is really boring." ”
Zhao Xiao was speechless, Miao Suo Luo got up and said: "The words have been spoken, what Zhao Xiaolangjun plans to do, it has nothing to do with me." ”
Lu Wangji still hugged Yaoqin horizontally, looking ready to go, Miao Suo Luo saw this: "What? Don't let my sister leave? Okay, I'll sleep here tonight. ”
Zhao Xiao waved his hand lightly, Lu Wangji moved out of the way, Miao Suo Luo was not polite, his figure gradually disappeared, leaving a wisp of incense in the tent, and came with a word: "Zhao Xiaolangjun, don't be too desperate, if you continue like this, it will be more than Jiuli Kingdom that wants to kill you." ”