Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Dark Tide Surges

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Highness the Prince. Walking outside the hall was a servant and a man wearing the dark blue uniform of the Qingyu Spirit Master's main hall, and the man came in as a salute, saying, "I'm really sorry to disturb me late at night, I was ordered by the hall master to deliver news to His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"Xiao Qian?" His Majesty raised his eyebrows and asked, "What does the old man want to tell me at this time?"

Chen Xi'an was also listening, wanting to know what kind of news the hall master of the hall of the dignified Qingyu Spirit Master sent someone to send so late, could it be that his sister's whereabouts were found?

"The hall lord said, please contact the people of the treasure caravan as soon as possible, the hall lord thinks that the purpose of the treasure caravan coming to Qingyu Country this time may have something to do with the kidnapping of the princess this time, if there is anything that our main hall can help, please ask the emperor to speak. The man bowed.

"Treasure Caravan...... Wang Baocai?" Emperor Xianning and Chen Xi'an glanced at each other, both of them remembered what was said on the envelope before, the kidnappers were tracked all the way from the Star Iron Country, but the Treasure Caravan came all the way from the Star Iron Country, so if you say this, could it be that the kidnappers are really looking for something? And that kind of thing is in the hands of the Treasure Caravan.

"I know, go back and tell Xiao Qian, let him send a few people with enough strength to Guanyutai Teahouse at noon tomorrow, we will have the first contact with the kidnappers, I hope the main hall can give us some support." Emperor Xianning said to the man sent by the main hall in front of him without changing his face.

"Yes, I have already brought the words of the hall master, and I will also convey the words of Your Majesty to the hall master, if there is nothing to do, I will retreat first. The man replied and retreated.

"Stand down. Emperor Xianning waved his hand, watched his servant send the man away from the spiritual master, and immediately looked at his son again, and the two began to discuss the specific plan for dealing with this matter. Anyway, they finally got a glimpse of the whole thing.

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The Treasure Caravan Rain God City Branch, which is a mansion with a small footprint. The plaque at the door is engraved with two gilded "treasures". The whole mansion consisted of several courtyards, the courtyards where the workers and men lived, the courtyards where the stewards lived, and the courtyards where some important members of the caravan lived, including the front hall, the warehouse, and so on.

And Lin Yuming has lived with Wang Baocai and Xue Yi for these three months, nominally to protect Wang Baocai's safety, but in fact, Wang Baocai takes care of Lin Yuming, although most of the time in the past three months has been training with Lingruo at the Rain Temple, but he will still come back here every night to rest.

Lin Yuming had just returned here at this time, and came to the courtyard where he lived with Wang Baocai and Xue Yi's master and servant, which was a courtyard with three bedrooms, a large master bedroom and two guest bedrooms, and there were two carefully decorated green spaces in the courtyard, rockery flowers and plants, and a huge camphor tree.

"I heard that Princess Xiyun was kidnapped on the street today, and the entire Rain God City was in an uproar. Lin Yuming had just approached the courtyard when he heard Xue Yi's voice, talking about the kidnapping that happened on the street this afternoon.

"Oh?" the other was Wang Baocai's voice, which sounded a little surprised, and immediately asked, "What's the matter?

"Hehe, this should be a planned kidnapping. Xue Yi smiled and said: "At that time, the princess was shopping in plain clothes, and there was no powerful guard around her, the kidnappers should have been prepared like this for a long time, and they had been monitoring the side, and they found a gap to get it, and it is said that the princess was accompanied by Lingruo and Yuming's kids." ”

Lin Yuming happened to walk to the gate of the courtyard at this time, he listened to the conversation between the two all the way, and paused at the door, and the two people who were sitting in a corridor pavilion in the courtyard were eating snacks, and they also saw Lin Yuming at this time, Xue Yi waved his hand at him and shouted: "Just speaking of you kid, you came back, I thought you were going to be detained by the city guards for a while." ”

Lin Yuming walked over with an umbrella, came to the corridor of the master bedroom house to put away the umbrella, shook the rain and put it into the jasper bracelet, then walked towards the pavilion, nodded to Wang Baocai and Xue Yi, and greeted, "Boss Wang, Brother Xue." ”

"Haha, tell us what's going on in the afternoon?" Xue Yi patted Lin Yuming's shoulder heartily, and at the same time pushed a plate of dim sum in front of Lin Yuming, motioning for him to talk while eating.

Seeing Xue Yi's interest, Lin Yuming also talked while eating snacks: "Well, here's the thing, after I trained with Lingruo today, Her Royal Highness the princess ......" started from the things after the training, and all the things that Lin Yuming and Lingruo came out of the city guard headquarters talked about, Xue Yi and Wang Baocai were slightly silent after listening.

"Yu Ming, are you saying that among the people who kidnapped Her Royal Highness the Princess, the person who was caught was a martial spirit master who used fire-based spiritual power?" Wang Baocai suddenly asked.

"Well, yes. Lin Yuming said with certainty: "And it is a relatively powerful fire martial spirit master, at least it should be around the red level, if it weren't for the timely arrival of the Cheng guards in the end, it may not be possible for Ling Ruo and I to leave him behind, we were all exhausted at that time." ”

"Fire spirit master, you caught up so quickly...... Kidnapping the princess, this is to borrow the power of the royal city guards to conduct a search......" Wang Baocai listened to Lin Yuming's explanation, and muttered in a low voice that neither Xue Yi nor Lin Yuming could hear.

"What's wrong?" Xue Yi looked at Wang Baocai with some confusion, not hearing what Wang Baocai was saying.

"Nothing. Wang Baocai waved his hand, thought carefully for a while, and then said: "Xue Yi, tomorrow we will go to the imperial mansion, it is time to do the right thing to do in Qingyu Country this time, and see if we can reach an agreement with the royal family of Qingyu Country." ”

“...... Good. Although Xue Yi had some doubts, he believed that Wang Baocai was going to do something, he had followed Wang Baocai for so many years, Wang Baocai had never done anything risky, although it was rich and dangerous, but Wang Baocai had been in business for so many years, and it was rare to do things that he was not sure of.

Lin Yuming listened with some confusion on the side, why did Wang Baocai suddenly want to go to the imperial palace after he finished talking about the kidnapping incident that happened this afternoon? Could it be that Wang Baocai had any way to rescue Princess Xiyun? Although he was puzzled, Lin Yuming also did not ask, the main purpose of coming to Qingyu Country this time has always been a secret, Wang Baocai did not say it when he set off, he probably just didn't want others to know.

The three of them talked in the pavilion for a while, and only went back to their rooms to rest in the middle of the night, and when Lin Yuming returned to his room, he recalled the battle of the afternoon, which was the first time he had used his new illusion, the branch of illusion. It was also the first time that Lin Yuming used real illusion in actual combat.

It is precisely because the illusion master can really use illusion after the spirit master, and the attack method like spiritual impact can only be regarded as a kind of spiritual energy, and the small illusion dazzle that the so-called primordial spirit master can use is just a disturbance to the enemy's mental level.

The branch of illusion, as the name suggests, uses spiritual power to urge spiritual energy, invades the enemy's spiritual sea, and makes the enemy hallucinate, the enemy will find that many branches grow in the air on the ground, wrapping around their hands and legs, and the first reaction of the general spiritual master is that there is a nearby wood spiritual master who has moved on him, but it is only an illusion formed by spiritual power in his consciousness, unless he sets his mind to distinguish, no matter how much strength, it is impossible to shake off the branches.

This is a common technique for the formation of illusions, which can be said to make people subconsciously think that they have been attacked and interfered with by all kinds of strange things, causing the enemy to suffer all kinds of interference in battle, blinding the enemy, and finally using other ways to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy.

The branch of illusion is a classic example of this kind of illusion in low-level illusions, it comes from the general outline of spiritual illusion, and it is a kind of interference illusion technique that the core disciples of the Illusion Saint Sect must practice, in group battles, if the enemy does not understand our situation, such illusions can often achieve unexpected effects for the enemy. The man in black this afternoon was planted on Lin Yuming's illusory branch, if it weren't for the illusory branch that blinded the consciousness of the man in black, maybe he wouldn't have been caught by the city guards.

In the past three months, Lin Yuming has studied this illusion for a long time, it can be said that since breaking through the spirit control master, Lin Yuming has found several illusions suitable for him from the general outline of spiritual illusion to practice, but it is difficult to learn and integrate an illusion, just like the branch of illusion, Lin Yuming has just learned it from these three months and Lingruo's training, and even occasionally he will not be able to control his mental energy, causing the branch of illusion to reveal flaws, so that the enemy can clearly distinguish.

Fortunately, the Illusory Branch was cast in the afternoon and the man in black did not see through it, I don't know if it was because of the black-clothed man's panic at the time or if he really mastered the various details of the Illusory Branch. What Lin Yuming has to do now is to continue to hone and know that he can fully master the casting of the Illusion Branch, so that he is foolproof and practice makes perfect.

After these three months of training, Lin Yuming developed the habit of entering a meditative state as long as he stopped, which was the result of Lingruo's constant supervision, although it was very hard, the effect was also what Lin Yuming hoped to see. As a spirit master, it should be like this, since you want to be strong, you must have such perseverance, so that you can find your own strong direction.

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