068:River of Blood
The sound spread for hundreds of miles, and all the people in the city of Que Shengting looked up one after another.
Those sect disciples were all wearing long black robes, but they were not uniform weapons. In Que Shengting, there are sword cultivators, sword cultivators, and martial arts cultivators who practice fist and foot kung fu. The exercises that the disciples learned were also extremely chaotic and miscellaneous.
The reason why Que Shengting can become a first-class sect on the Qiu Jin Continent is mostly due to the so-called 'sea and hundred rivers', the original number of disciples in this court is a small number, and most of the disciples have some advanced cultivators, and none of the cultivators are Que Shengting's unique exercises.
Even among those disciples who originally practiced the exclusive exercises of this sect in the Que Sheng Court, the disciples who made slow progress in their cultivation would choose to abandon their own mental methods and Dao minds, forget the exercises they had learned, and instead learn the mental methods and exercises that were more suitable for themselves.
Among them, many disciples were not originally sword cultivators, martial cultivators, or Taoist cultivators. It's all for faster progress, and even the foundation that he has worked so hard to cultivate is willing to self-destruct and find another way to improve himself quickly.
In the eyes of outsiders, this Que Shengting is just a nest of pigs and dogs with a reputation.
There are no rules in the entire Que Shengting, only people with big fists speak to count, and there is only a long black dress with gold edges, and when you go out, you can still let others see:
Oh, it turned out to be Que Shengting's people.
Shangguan Yuan waited for a moment after shouting in the air.
Seeing that Que Shiyi didn't come out to meet for a long time, Shangguan Yuan was angry, his face sank, and six white spirit balls condensed out of thin air behind him.
Shangguan Yuan's methods are not as gentle as ordinary Taoist cultivators, and since he has forced Shangguan Yuan to make a move, this Que Shiyi will have to pay the price for poor hospitality.
"Go."
Shangguan Yuan muttered, and the six spirit balls behind him fell instantly.
The disciples in the city on the ground looked high into the sky, and the spirit ball began to fall and expand as it left Shangguan Yuan. In half a breath, six spirit balls, which were originally only the size of fists, swelled like meteorites in a dazzling eye!
The falling and long tail flame made the 'disaster' in their eyes as beautiful as a meteor.
Whew-
Hoo-——、-hoo——、
All of them fell, and the sect that was about to hit Que Shengting, each spirit ball had already grown to a size of a hundred meters in diameter. At this time, the court lord Que Shiyi had not yet shown his head, and at this time, Shangguan Yuan had roughly guessed-
Que Shiyi is not here, he is not in the sect, where did he go?
It's not going to be the other side of the wasteland continent, is it?
Bang!! ——
Boom!! ——
Boom!!! ——
A burst of violent explosions, with just one move, six meteorites fell, turning Que Shengting into a sea of fire!
As soon as Shangguan Yuan's move came out, it was impossible to have the idea of stopping.
On the ground, there were bursts of wailing and screaming, and there was not one person in the court. Que Shengting's sect, under Shangguan Yuan's move, all perished.
The majesty of the half-step road, how can you ants dare to slack off. Since he can't summon someone to see, it is not too much to make this trip and let his disciple's life as compensation.
"Don't think I don't know what you're doing in secret, but now you're in a situation where you are innocent." ’
Shangguan Yuan coldly glanced at the sea of fire under his feet, opened his senses, probed, and only after leaving no one alive did he turn around and leave here and fly to Huacheng.
When Que Shiyi comes back from elsewhere, he can probably guess whose handiwork.
……
This city in Huacheng is located in the east of the central city of the Qiujin Continent (Wolong City).
To the north outside of Huacheng is Houjiu City, which is close to the Black River.
To the south outside of Birch Castle is the Antler Castle, which occupies a single corner, and it is some distance to go there.
And to the east of Huacheng, near the Heihe Baili Land, there is a site surrounded by a stone city wall, where is Que Shengting, which looks more like a small city.
From today onwards, Que Shengting no longer exists.
……
A small road not far north of Huacheng, after the group left the city, each carrying a wooden barrel, walked with difficulty.
"Whew, Whew, Whew......"
"Big brother, where are we, where are we going to move to?"
Lu Sheng was covered in sweat, bending over and carrying a bucket full of blood. At this time, two hours have passed, and the surface of the blood in the barrel has been coagulated, and there is no need to worry about blood oozing out at an oblique angle.
Mei Chao and his entourage carried the barrel on their backs and walked in the direction of the east outside the city.
At this moment, high in the sky, an inconspicuous figure passed by. Shangguan Yuan didn't find out about them, maybe they were anxious, and part of the reason was that Lu Sheng's cultivation was too low, so they didn't attract Shangguan Yuan's attention at all.
Before Mei Chao and the others could reach the place, Shangguan Yuan flew back to Huacheng in a blink of an eye.
In Huacheng, Shangguan Yuan's scholar has just arrived.
"Sir! Over here! ”
It turned out that the scholar also guessed what Shangguan Yuan wanted to do, and arrested people in advance.
After Shangguan Yuan landed, in a relatively wide courtyard, next to it was the yamen, which was the mansion of the magistrate.
The magistrate of Huacheng sat next to him as a guest in the guest hall, vacated the seat of the main seat, and waited for the arrival of the elder. And this magistrate looked sad, as if he was a little frightened.
Da Da Da ......
There was a rush of footsteps, and the people of the county didn't dare to look up directly, so they had to look sideways and peek out of the corner of their eyes. Seeing only the clothes on the lower half of his body, he guessed that it was a scholar from the palace.
This is also known as the 'elder of the pavilion'.
"Get up!"
Shangguan Yuan didn't have a good temper, and shouted, frightened to learn that the county immediately left the stool.
Poof, stand up straight.
Shangguan Yuan walked to the main seat inside and landed in his position, and after sitting down, the scholar stood quietly beside Shangguan Yuan.
Shangguan Yuan was furious, and slapped his palm on the wooden table next to the chair,
Syllable!
The force of that palm was terrifying, shaking a layer of white ash in the cracks on the table, and it looked as if the whole table was about to fall apart.
Shangguan Yuan roared angrily:
"As an official of the imperial court, when you are a parent, what do you do!?"
Zhixian didn't dare to refute, what he did, he knew in his heart. The elder dared to order like this directly, presumably he already knew the whole news. The magistrate was so frightened that he immediately stepped forward and fell to his knees with his legs fluttering. And with a slight cry:
"The villain knows his mistake! The villain knows his mistake! The little one is also confused for a while, and the old man of Wangge is gracious, gracious! ”
Shangguan Yuan frowned, if he wanted to say that this was a fight and killing on the rivers and lakes, even if it was full of wind and rain and thousands of people were killed and injured, Shangguan Yuan, as a pavilion elder, would not blink his eyelids more. But this is the imperial court officer, the official officer!
Such a bad act is simply slapping Guan Yuan in the face!
"The fart benefits of Que Shengting can buy you, so that the people of Huacheng can supply them without knowing whether they are alive or dead, in exchange for a few taels of stinky money. This stinky money can buy your life! ”
"The villain knows his mistake! The villain doesn't dare! The villain doesn't dare anymore! ”
The magistrate was so frightened that he really cried, but the matter was a foregone conclusion, and the people who didn't deserve to die were already dead.
Now, damned people, they shouldn't be alive anymore.
Shangguan Yuan looked coldly at the magistrate who was kowtowing on the ground in front of him, his black gauze hat rolled to the side, and his hair was so messy that he couldn't look like it.
But Shangguan Yuan still couldn't have the slightest pity.
In the face of such animals, Shangguan Yuan said the next sentence, got up and shook his hand and didn't look at it again:
"Pigs and dogs are not as good as things, within three days, bring your own three-generation genealogy, and go to the Wolong City Praetorian Guard to ask for death!"
After the scholar and Shangguan Yuan left, the county was left alone in the hall in a daze.
The head nodded to the ground, the eyes were like a clock, and the stunned despair overflowed the face.
"Master, will he go?"
Walking outside the long corridor, after the two of them left the courtyard, the scholar asked Shangguan Yuan.
Shangguan Yuan's face was gloomy, and he replied in a quiet voice:
"If he doesn't want to go, the consequences of even punishing the Nine Clans will be even worse."
He didn't stay too long in Huacheng, and after a round of inspection, Shangguan Yuan and the scholar set off back to Wolong City. However, Shangguan Yuan did not return to the palace, but just pretended.
"You stay in the academy, and when someone visits, you will resign."
"Master, do you have something important?"
"Well, I'm going to go over there to take a look, I feel that someone is planning something, the stakes are very high, and I have a hunch that it is likely to endanger the entire Qiu Jin Continent."
The scholar pursed his lips and said helplessly:
"Well, you be careful along the way."
Shangguan Yuan stretched out his hand and knocked on the scholar's forehead, and told with a serious face:
"Remember, you can't let anyone know that I'm not in the palace, not even the emperor."
"Oh, the master is so bold~"
The scholar responded mischievously, this time, Shangguan Yuan did not reprimand the scholar as before, but left a serious sentence at the end, and then turned around and left Wolong City:
"The world is in the same world, and the dangers are in danger, I have to go, the things in my position in the palace, I want you to keep busy for me for a while, and I have to go to the outside affairs, so you don't have to worry about it."
The scholar saw from Shangguan Yuan's face that he was not as calm as before, maybe there was really something about something that even the strongest person in the imperial court couldn't grasp?
The scholar also silently watched Shangguan Yuan leave.
After Shangguan Yuan and the scholar walked into the gate of Wolong City openly, he explained a few words to the scholar, and then turned around and climbed over the wall from the other side of the city wall.
In order not to attract people's eyes, and indeed no one sees it.
After Shangguan Yuan left, the scholar called a carriage at a nearby inn. The scholar sat in the carriage, the curtain was folded halfway, and passers-by could only see the background of the scholar beside Mr. Scholar, although they did not see whether Mr. Scholar was in the carriage, but they also acquiesced that they were inseparable.
This is the tacit thing in the hearts of those scholars in Wolong City and all the Qiu Jin continents who have a one-sided relationship with Mr. Scholar.
There is little argument.
Back in the palace, the scholar passed by the emperor's dormitory and the main hall, and when he stepped into the front of the academy, Zhao Gonggong didn't know that he came out of that corner, and ran to the scholar with a sigh.
Before he could speak, he first looked left and right, and then asked cautiously, puzzled:
"The cabinet member has returned from afar, may I ask...... Why don't you see Mr. Ge? ”
What's wrong with Father-in-law Zhao, as soon as he comes back, he blocked the door.
The scholar pretended to be unhappy and said:
"My husband has some personal matters, and now he is in the backyard to the east, right?"
It means that the master of his family is now stinky in the thatched house in the backyard, and asked if the eunuch wanted to accompany him. Zhao Gonggong's face darkened half after hearing this, so he was not ashamed:
"No, no, I don't know if Mr. Ge cleans his hands, there is a lot of disturbance."
said that he turned his head and was about to leave, but remembered that there were some things that he hadn't said, and Zhao Gonggong hurriedly bent over and ran back:
"By the way, Mr. Cabinet Member, please also tell Mr. Pavilion that the emperor is waiting for the news of Mr. Cabinet's return to the hospital, don't delay the time, let the emperor worry."
"Got it."
The scholar drooped his face and watched Zhao Gonggong leave.
When the old eunuch walked out of the distance, the scholar left to return to the academy.
Tell the lord to see the emperor? How to call it, no one is here, but it is not okay not to reply to the emperor, think about it, what did the lord do when he was willful?
'Oh, there is, just send me a letter and say...... Hmmm......'
The scholar had a plan, and after returning to the main hall of the courtyard, he spread the paper and sharpened the pen.
Letter dyeing:
[The emperor's dragon body is healthy, and the matter of starting the performance.
Yesterday, I went to Huacheng to investigate, and found that the local magistrate and county magistrate ......]
……
In the afternoon of the same day, the letter reached the emperor's bedroom.
Behind the curtain of beads, the emperor set out to open the letter paper, looked up and down, and after a moment, the corners of his mouth were half smiling.
After reading it, the emperor folded and tore up the letter in half.
The scholar slapped his palm on his forehead in the middle school, looking at the piles of documents on the table in front of him......
These piles have to be carefully reviewed, and they look big before they start.
What made the scholar even more anxious was that in the letter to the emperor, he originally wanted to fool the emperor, but after thinking about it, at the end of the article after making up nonsense, the scholar still explained the specific whereabouts of his master in two or three sentences:
[Not in the palace, still busy with hidden dangers outside, Mr. Ge explained that Xiaosheng kept it secret, however, he couldn't bear to bully the king, so he hereby made it clear that he hoped that the emperor would keep it safe. 】
When the emperor unfolded the letter, he could see at a glance that this was not Shangguan Yuan's handwriting, but after seeing the explanation at the end of the letter, the stuffiness in front suddenly disappeared.
Shangguan Yuan is also for the sake of the imperial court, and also for the sake of the entire Qiu Jin Continent.
The emperor is also for the country and the people, and this matter is up to him, and the emperor also smiled bitterly.
……
In the distance, with a slick of smoke, Shangguan Yuan swept over Hou Jiucheng, preparing to go due north, straight to the place in the wasteland continent-
The mountain gate where the Meteoric Gate is located.
And when he swept through Hou Jiucheng, he accidentally found the unqualified green decoration on the surface of the ground under his feet.
That little bit of color is in the city of Houjiucheng...... Those, are the rice fields?
Shangguan Yuan was very curious, could it be that the emperor had sent troops to help for many years, and it had finally paid off?
No, there may be something strange in it, Shangguan Yuan has always been suspicious, and the object of suspicion is Que Shengting's side, but because there is no evidence, Shangguan Yuan has not moved the people on Que Shengting's side.
Yesterday, it was because the evidence was conclusive that Shangguan Yuan was moved without any worries.
That old man didn't know where to hide, eighty percent was on the wasteland continent.
Shangguan Yuan was going to the Meteoric Immortal Gate this time to find someone, and he didn't know if that person was there......
……
Two days later, Lu Sheng and the others finally walked back to their destination from the wild path. But the place in front of me and the scene I saw in my eyes were completely different. What about the sect here? What about those who traded before?
"Huh?"
"Big brother, what's wrong?"
Mei Chao's jaw dropped in shock, and he thought that he was going the wrong way, and looked left and right, the environment was still this one, and he was sure that he was not in the wrong place, so the only possibility was ......
With a plop, Mei Chao fell to his knees, his face full of despair:
"Ah, it's over, my money!"
Lu Sheng was puzzled:
"Big brother, what's going on?"
Several people behind Mei Chao also put down the wooden barrel behind them and stepped forward to look at the scene in front of them. In their memories, this place is the only first-class sect on the Qiu Jin Continent, Que Shengting.
Why didn't you see it for a few days, and it just became a ruin?
Who is the poisoner, and who is the poisoner?
This scene directly cut off Mei Chao's financial route, he has no sect to rely on, the only means of life is to rely on the thighs of the children of the sect occasionally around, and then do some errand work, and then he has many brothers and his own cultivation is high, and occasionally he can get a lot of errand fees.
But it is often half a month full, and it will be hungry for half a month.
The money from this business is not enough for the gambling debts owed in Antler City before, and the money has not been earned, and the owner has no one!
Finish the calf!
"Sixth, it's over, it's over!"
Mei Chao was unusual, got up and ran towards the ruins in front of him. Ran through the rubble and rummaged through the rubble, trying to find a living person out of the charred charcoal.
But for a long time there was no result.
"What about people? What about people! ”
Mei Chao seemed to be crazy, what Lu Sheng didn't know was that in fact, the five of them still owed a lot of gambling debts, otherwise they wouldn't have thought of doing such a lack of morality, don't they understand? They all understand that they are just under pressure and have to find some ways to make money quickly.
But now, halfway down the road, snap-
Broken.
The second, third, fourth, and fifth children behind him all stepped forward silently, walked to the ruins and began to rummage. Those disciples of the sect, even if they don't have a living mouth, maybe they can find something valuable near the body after death. Maybe it's okay to pick up the corpse, and you can get a little bit of it.
Then from the time when the sun hung high in the sky, until the sunset was found, the six people were empty-handed, and they were still disgraced, and most of them were buried.
No, nothing, not to mention jewelry and other previous things, the swords and weapons that those sect disciples carried with them, they lifted the charcoal block and saw a similar shape, and after reaching out and picking it up, it was pitch black, and before they could use their strength, they suddenly shattered into powder.
What kind of powerful handwriting, such a ruthless means.
Not even the scum was left behind......
"It's over, it's over......"
Mei Chao sat down in despair and sat in the ruins. The hands of the six men were blackened by rummaging through relics and pulling coke from the ruins.
Almost all of the body is jet black.
…… It was as dark as it blended into the night.
There was a sudden movement in the distance, the sound of breaking the sky, Mei Chao sensed a very dangerous aura, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly looked up at the sky.
The distance is too far to see very clearly, and the moonlight is not very bright tonight, so I can't tell who that person is at all.
Before you see the person, you can hear his voice first.
The monk who came from the thunder in the sky, with an old-fashioned voice, was furious:
"You and other thieves, destroy my court, and you deserve death!!