Volume 5: Chu Ming One Hundred and Eighty-Four: Borrowing a Knife to Kill?
On the second day, all five of them gathered at Qian Chao's residence to taste Qian Chao's fine spiritual tea before starting their practice.
"Sister Yan, what good things did your senior grandfather give you that day, I think Zhong Yao's seniors are very grateful?" Tang Ping held the teacup and suddenly thought of the situation on the day of Yan Xuan's apprenticeship.
Hearing this, Yan Xuan put down the tea cup in his hand, gently touched his eyebrows with his fingers and said:
"I don't know, I asked my master and she only said that she would naturally know after the foundation was built in the future, and the master said that it was a means that could be used in the future, and then I looked in the mirror by myself, and there was nothing here in my eyebrows, huh...... Brother Qian, can you see what is hidden in my eyebrows? â
Qian Chao listened to it and closed his eyes first, when he opened it, the blue light in the two eyes flashed and he could barely see the original eyes and the whites of the eyes, he stared at Yan Xuan's eyebrows for a while, and then the blue light gradually faded, and then Qian Chao dipped his fingers in the tea cup and drew a phoenix with wings on the table, the phoenix lines are simple, but the extraordinary charm that the divine bird should have is all revealed, and several people came over to see it, and they couldn't help but be amazed.
"That's what it looks like, but it's very small," Qian Chao said, pointing to the table, "It's not much bigger than a fingertip, it seems to me to be light red, and it's hidden in the center of Sister Yan's eyebrows." â
Tang Ping held the teacup and looked at it carefully, then raised her eyes to look at Yan Xuan's face for a while, and Yan Xuan was a little uncomfortable, and glared at her with disgust:
"You girl, keep staring as if you can see it!"
"Alas, it seems that if you want to know what secrets there are in Sister Yan's eyebrows, you can only wait until the foundation is built in the future, I really can't see anything, Sister Yan, how do you usually feel in your eyebrows?"
Yan Xuan shook his head and said:
"Okay, let's not talk about me, let's talk about what happened yesterday."
"Well, okay," Tang Ping immediately sat up straight when he heard this, and said, "Brother Lu and Brother Li don't know about this matter yet, just yesterday, Sister Yan heard a news in the Baicao Courtyard of Qixia Mountain, which seems to have something to do with the Qingluan we have seen before, someone saw a strange big bird fighting with several fierce demon beasts in a place called Shouwu Mountain outside the sect, judging from the situation described in their mouths, it is very similar to the Qingluan, and then I went to Qixia Mountain with Sister Yan to inquire carefully, It's a pity that they all heard it from other people's mouths, and Sister Yan and I asked many people one after another, and what they said was much the same, but we didn't find out who saw that scene with their own eyes outside. However, when I turned around, I inquired about the situation of guarding Wok Mountain, and they all said that it was a fierce place, and it was better for ordinary disciples not to go there, so as not to encounter the danger of not being able to get out......"
Tang Ping paused when she said this, yesterday she did ask carefully about the situation of Shou Wok Mountain, and the statement she got made her a little worried, people said that Shou Wok Mountain is not a place where ordinary disciples should go, and even kind-hearted repeatedly advised Tang Ping not to go there, so as not to encounter any tricky trouble, which made Tang Ping very contradictory, on the one hand, even if she didn't find out who met the strange bird similar to Qingluan outside, she also planned to go there to see for herself, even if it was just a false rumor, and only if she personally confirmed it, she was willing; But on the other hand, people said that the Shou Wok Mountain was a dangerous place, and if it was for her own sake to let a few companions take this danger with her, she was very unhappy in her heart, so she looked at Qian Chao and wanted to hear what he had to say.
"Hehe, what are you afraid of, what is guarding Wok Mountain, and it is still fierce, let's go and break through and see how powerful the guy is there!" Lu Pingchuan hurriedly said.
Money tide says:
"Not really, it seems to me that there are still some suspicious things about this matter......
"What is it?" Tang Ping asked anxiously.
"Well, Sister Yan came to talk about this yesterday, after you left, I checked the map, including those sent to me by Senior Tang, well, in my opinion, Shouwu Mountain should not be a place where spiritual veins gather, Tang girl, your master and aunt have said before, Qingluan spawning should be in the place where the spiritual veins converge, and it doesn't have to be the place where the big spiritual veins converge, the smaller spiritual veins converge, and the richness of its spiritual energy is enough. I didn't find any record of the gathering of spiritual veins in Shouwo Mountain, maybe the small spiritual veins there were not recorded, but thinking about Pinghai Peak, it can be marked on the 'Blossoming Flowers' map, if there is really a suitable place for Qingluan to lay eggs in Shouwo Mountain, it should also be drawn in Mr. Zhuang's 'Blossoming Flowers', and it is also the same in those maps given to me by Tang seniors, so I have some doubts......
As soon as Tang Ping heard this, he immediately said:
"Do you suspect that someone has manipulated the spirit pulses outside, so the spirit veins there have not converged to converge with each other?"
"Well, I do have that suspicion......"
"Is it gentleness, they can move their hands and feet?" Li Jian asked on the side.
"There is this possibility," Qian Chao said thoughtfully, "but this is just speculation, if that Qingluan really chose Shouwu Mountain as its spawning place, and the spiritual veins there are really gathered together, rather than the small spiritual veins that were not identified and originally gathered, then someone should have done something to the spiritual pulse somewhere, which led to the abnormal change of the spiritual veins of Shouwu Mountain, if this is the case, then Wen Liang is indeed a lot of suspicion." â
Lu Pingchuan only understood half of it, and he said:
"Eh, then we might be able to help Sister Tang find that egg and catch that gentle kindness this time, right?"
Tang Ping heard that Qian Chao's words were not finished, so he said:
"How can it be that simple, boy Qian, you don't seem to have finished speaking, keep talking."
"Well, I was also shocked when I thought of this yesterday, and I thought that maybe I could find some traces of Wen Liang's hands and feet this time, but then I thought about this matter again and again, and felt that this matter may not be so simple, Tang girl, let me ask you, since you heard about this incident, have you been burning in your heart and can't wait to go to Shouwo Mountain to see what is going on?"
"Hmm...... That's right, caring is messy, and Qingluan's eggs are really important to me......"
"Hmm......" Qian Chao nodded, "The key is here, don't talk about you, I've been thinking about it since yesterday and really having that Qingluan's egg......"
Seeing Tang Ping's eyes widen and she was about to speak, Qian Chao waved his hand and motioned for her to continue listening.
"But after all, this is what Sister Yan heard from others in Baicao Courtyard, you, I, Sister Yan, didn't think much about it when I heard the news, and for a while I only thought it was true, even if it was a false rumor, according to your temperament, I would definitely go to Shouwu Mountain to take a look for myself, and then I could feel at ease from now on, regardless of whether it was true or not, right?"
Tang Ping seemed to have thought of a possibility, and her face was a little difficult to look at. It's not that she couldn't think about what Qian Chao said just now, the reason why she didn't think of these things was because of the four words she said - caring is chaos, after hearing what Yan Xuan said yesterday, her heart suddenly became hot, after all, if the egg of Qingluan can be obtained, it will be her third natal spirit beast, which is too important to Tang Ping, so all her thoughts are on inquiring about the rumors, and the rest is not bothered.
"Could it be...... Is that rumor false? Yan Xuan said with some doubts.
"Whether it's true or not, it's impossible for us to know the truth in the sect......"
"Then ......" Yan Xuan was even more puzzled.
"Yesterday after Sister Yan and Tang Yatou left, I went to Chengqi Hall once at night, speaking of lively, Chengqi Hall is more than Baicao Yuan, all kinds of news can be heard there, I found a few senior brothers who are refining in Chengqitang all day long, and their ears and eyes are more well-informed to inquire, it is also strange to say, the rumors that Sister Yan heard in Baicao Yuan, although some people have heard of it in Chengqitang, but there are very few people who know about it, which makes me a little confused, although the sect is big, but if you talk about being well-informed, it is still Chengqitang first, But the things that didn't spread much in Chengqi Hall were heard by Sister Yan in Baicao Temple, so I suspected ......"
Speaking of this, Qian Chao's eyes looked at Tang Ping.
"Tang girl, in our sect, besides you, who else wants to get their hands on that Qingluan egg?"
"Shangguan Hong......" Tang Ping said the name softly.
"That's right, Shangguan Hong......"
"Brother Qian," Lu Pingchuan understood a little more here, "Are you saying that these things are all caused by the mother-in-law surnamed Shangguan?" There are a lot of powerful things guarding Wok Mountain, is she trying to trick us into harming us? â
Several people's eyes were on Qian Chao.
"This ...... It's just that I'm not sure, "Qian Chao looked at a few companions" Last time in Pinghaifeng, we met Sister Shangguan Hong, and that Qiu Huayu senior, for the sake of Qingluan's egg, even her master came out to help find it, which shows how attentive Shangguan Hong is to the Qingluan egg, and according to this Shangguan senior sister's flamboyant temperament, if she has really found the egg, Tang girl, do you believe that she would have come to you to show off a good time? â
Tang Ping nodded when she heard this.
"Regardless of why she is like this, at least now it seems that Senior Sister Shangguan has a mind on you, right?"
Tang Ping nodded again.
"However, take a step back and think about it, if this matter has nothing to do with Shangguan, and she only heard this news recently like you, what do you think she will do?"
"It should be impatient, so I will go out of the sect to find the egg of Qingluan." Tang Ping said.
"If this matter has nothing to do with that Shangguan Hong, and it is a rumor deliberately released by someone, who do you think the people behind it are really dealing with?" Qian Chao asked.
Tang Ping thought about it seriously and said:
"Although I have offended people in the sect, I don't have any enemies of life and death, if what you say is true, if someone wants to defend the Wok Mountain, it is more likely to deal with Shangguan Hong than against me."
Qian Chao nodded and said:
"That's right, that senior sister Shangguan has made countless enemies before, and later, after the tide of Cold Spring Valley, although the relationship with many high-level cultivators has eased a lot, but there are deep grievances, and there is no contact between them, maybe someone has suffered too much from her before, and still holds a grudge against her, so this is why they have to design against her."
Tang Ping thought for a moment and said:
"Are you saying that this matter is aimed at Shangguan Hong? Someone deliberately spread this news in order to let Shangguan Hong fall into the net? â
Qian Chao sighed:
"If that's easy, what I'm really worried about is that this matter may be seen through by Shangguan Hong, and ...... I don't know what the reason is, you, Senior Sister Shangguan, have thoughts about you that you shouldn't have, Qiu Huayu's seniors and Gu Huo's seniors are the same brothers, but Shangguan Hong doesn't know why, a few times they met, I feel that she has a different kind of deep jealousy towards you, which you can feel yourself, in my opinion, Shangguan Hong saw through the layout of Shouwo Mountain, but did not break it, but began to use this game to deal with you with his backhand......"
"What ......"
"After listening to me, even if we escape unharmed or in danger or even nine deaths afterwards, if we investigate afterwards, it is estimated that we will not be able to find Shangguan Hong's head, don't forget, you and Sister Yan don't know who saw the big bird outside the sect in the end, and we don't know who spread this rumor, and in the end we can only find out who is guarding the layout of Wok Mountain, so whether we can deal with us or not, it will only be good for that Shangguan Senior Sister!"
Tang Ping was silent after hearing this, and so was Yan Xuan.
æįŽ says:
"Borrowing a knife to kill someone, even if you can't make a plan, the next thing is still to borrow a knife to kill, this woman is really kind!"
Lu Pingchuan said indignantly:
"Hmph, Brother Qian, is there a way for us to make her suffer a big loss?"
Qian Chao sighed, looked at Tang Ping again, and said:
"Tang girl, what I said above is just speculation, but it is also a more reasonable guess, the reason why I said these is to let everyone understand that there is a great danger waiting for us in Shouwu Mountain no matter what. The eggs of Qingluan are extremely important to Tang Yatou, so we can't give up the opportunity to find out because someone may be making trouble, I mean, we must go, in case the eggs of Qingluan are there, if we don't go, we won't miss it, but after going there, we have to rely on Brother Li a lot, and second, how to get in and out there, you have to listen to me. Also, if I find anything unusual, I want everyone to get out of there, and everyone must come out with me immediately, and don't hesitate. â
Li Jian nodded.
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"Well, okay, just listen to Brother Qian."
Yan Xuan also nodded.
Finally, Tang Ping said:
"Then it's up to you, if it's really as you said later, this senior sister Shangguan ......"
Money tide says:
"That's for later......"