Chapter Forty-Eight: The Undercurrent
Behind King Chu Huai were not only the father-in-law and the guards, but also several Chu ministers who were high-ranking officials.
They are Wang Taishi, Prime Minister Zhang, Protector of the National Division and Bingbu Shirou and others.
"Pay homage to the King of Chu."
The scattered cultivators bowed their bows slightly, but no one really bowed down, after all, they were cultivators, and although their cultivation was mediocre and mediocre, they still had the arrogance of looking themselves up to be higher than mortals.
The king of Chu was slightly displeased, but he didn't have a seizure, he only raised his hand slightly towards them, and then came to the competition platform and said: "You continue to compete, don't be restrained, this king will just come and take a look." ”
Seeing that he didn't have a fight, the scattered cultivators also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but more than half of the competition had passed, and the next thing was the five-person competition.
"Little Taoist, this monk remembers that you are young and it is not easy to cultivate, if you know the difficulties and retreat, you will surrender early, so as not to be beaten by this monk."
It was the bald old monk who mocked him just now who fought against Lin Jingzhen, how could the old monk have the slightest amiable appearance on his face at this time?
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable." Lin was shocked and said: "Although Xiaodao Xiuwei is mediocre, he also knows that there is no word surrender to say between the competitions. ”
Without saying a word, he waved his hand and summoned a bunch of water arrows and swept towards the bald old monk.
In his fight with others, he doesn't like to move his mouth more, but he likes to keep silent and just dry up.
"Anitabha, if Xiaodao only has these means, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise, don't blame the poor monk for being ruthless." The bald old monk shouted: "Golden bell jar."
Before he finished speaking, a golden glow shone over his body.
"Broken!"
Lin snorted, controlled the water archery technique, and directly blasted a hole into a position, and then, the water arrow went into the hole in one go.
Hearing only a pig cry of "ahh
The competition was still in full swing, and it wasn't long before the other teams decided the winners.
The victor was another old man with a round hat and a long white beard growing from the corners of his mouth.
The old man looked at the two men and women in front of him who were not half their age combined, and coughed: "The two are juniors, don't admit defeat at this time, when will you stay?" ”
The woman chuckled, looked at the old man, and said, "If we admit defeat, are you sure that you are the opponent of the national teacher who is happy to play with crickets??" ”
Hearing this, many people looked at the national teacher who was fighting crickets in a corner, leisurely and leisurely, and they were all stunned, this national teacher always felt that there was a strange, casual expression, and seemed to be indifferent to everything, but everyone did not dare to underestimate him, because the breath on his body made people unclear.
Aside from cultivation, just this middle-aged man who fights crickets will be worshiped by Chu State as the position of national teacher, is he anything outstanding besides only fighting crickets?
King Chu Huai and the others were already surprised by the fact that the national teacher suddenly changed his trick and played these things.
And those old men had seen a wide range of things, and they were slightly stunned, and they accepted the ring, and the national teacher actually had a silver ring on his finger.
"Whether the old man is the opponent of the national teacher or not, I will wait for the old man to win your girl." After the white-bearded old man finished speaking, he directly sacrificed a ray of light and thundered down on the young woman's head.
Fire attribute, fire knife technique.
Rumble!
The woman had just avoided the loophole of the five-to-five competition, but now she was directly challenged by the white-bearded old man.
In the old man's heart, the young Taoist who can directly defeat the seventh-layer old man of Qi training in one move, his strength must be hidden, so in order to seek stability, he directly challenged the woman who only looked at the sixth-layer Qi training.
However, he also seemed to underestimate this woman's means, and when he saw the woman's hand surging up, he summoned a white mist, and when the white mist churned, it wrapped the seemingly terrifying fire knife, and it didn't stop, and it hit the white-bearded old man directly.
The white-bearded old man snorted, and was directly shocked and flew out, landing outside the venue, unconscious.
"Another move."
Several other casual cultivators were stunned, are the young people so fierce now?
Lin Jingzhen didn't see what the white qi churned out of the woman's palms was, but he always felt that this white mist was a little strange, but he couldn't think of what was weird.
"Now it's just the two of us." The woman looked at Lin Jingzhen in the audience and said lightly.
"Hmm." Lin replied in shock.
"But I don't want to fight you." The woman replied, "I give up the war." ”
After speaking, he walked off the test bench and left directly.
Everyone looked at the back that was gradually moving away, and they looked confused.
Lin Jingzhen won the first place inexplicably, feeling that everything was unrealistic, and feeling that everything seemed to have been arranged by someone.
He rubbed his nose, looked at the leisurely national teacher, and thought to himself, "What kind of cultivation is he?" ”
It's getting dark, and the final competition to challenge the national teacher is scheduled for tomorrow.
So, King Chu Huai set up a banquet in the palace and tried his best to keep them, and those loose cultivators who failed in the competition promised them a half-official position.
For the point of retaining talents, King Chu Huai did a very decisive job, almost every casual cultivator who promised to stay in the Chu court could be enshrined and an official and a half-position, even if he could not stay in the Chu palace because of something, he was also given a bag of plates.
Those scattered cultivators are grateful, after all, they are all because of their limited cultivation talents, so they choose to enter the court as a palace and become the worship of the royal court in the mortal world.
The feast was not over until the end of the day, and a large group of loose monks were drunk and returned to their resting houses.
Lin Jingzhen just took a shallow sip, which was polite, and he had a competition tomorrow, so he said goodbye early.
Tomorrow, he doesn't know if he can be qualified for the position of the national teacher, after all, the national teacher looks unfathomable, and it doesn't seem to be much worse than the old witch.
It's night, sub-hour.
In the quiet imperial garden, there is a pool of lake water, with clear ripples and bright bottoms.
Suddenly, there were several extremely small screams from the surrounding houses, like ripples splashing on the surface of the clear and bright lake.
Soon, a group of soldiers took advantage of the night to break into the Imperial Garden and directly surrounded the residences of the scattered cultivators in the Imperial Garden.
However, they cleverly bypassed the other rooms and rushed directly to Lin Jingzhen's residence, only to hear a man shouting: "Demon Dao, come out and die." ”
Lin Jingyu, who had been asleep a long time ago, naturally didn't notice the movement outside, but he set up a simple formation in the room.
As long as someone outside pushes the door in, this formation can make him suddenly wake up in his dream.
The guard who spoke saw that the person in the room did not respond, and was stunned for a while, thinking in his heart, isn't that the person still resting? If so, then God help me.
As if he had already rehearsed, he shouted: "Everyone follow me in and catch the demon road." ”
After saying that, Bento broke into the door first and slashed in the direction of the bed.
"Boom!"
There was a loud bang, the flames soared into the sky, and a charred black figure flew upside down from the broken door, until it hit many people, and then stopped the force of retreat.
Lin Jingzhen was already very sparing, he only used less than one-tenth of his strength, but the guard was just an ordinary man after all.
From the moment the guard broke through the door, he had already touched the formation inside, and Lin Jingzhen also suddenly woke up, and with a flip of his palm, a fireball was thrown.
At the moment when the fireball was thrown, he grabbed the long sword beside the bed and walked out the door, looking at the soldier who was on standby.
He looked at everyone suspiciously, and wondered, "Who are you?" ”
He never took off his robe when he slept, because he had a lot of hole cards in it.
"Demon Dao, don't be a thief pretending to be innocent, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, you have to fly with wings, we have notified the national teacher, he is already on his way.
"Demon Dao? National teacher? Lin frowned, still a little puzzled.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Xiao Dao didn't do anything out of the ordinary, you suddenly brought people to surround my residence, something is wrong."
"Hmph, you have to pretend that nothing happened, just now we saw you wearing a Taoist robe outside Concubine Li's palace, brutally hurting Concubine Li and Concubine Li's child, and fleeing here."
Concubine Li? Dead princes?
This is obviously a frame-up.
He closed his eyes, poked out his divine sense, his expression suddenly sank, and he died, and in the imperial garden, more than ten scattered cultivators, without exception, all fell to death in a pool of blood.
"You killed them?"
"Who killed them?"
These soldiers obviously didn't know anything, it seemed that behind this Chu Palace, it was not the calm on the surface.
Someone wants to frame themselves, who else can there be besides the national teacher?
"Why don't you think that someone else killed your concubine, but me?"
"Our guards say that it is you who is you, and besides, those casual cultivators who are on the same page as you are drunk, how can you have the ability to do bad things."
A few soldiers just shouted, but no one was trying to make a bird, after all, the guard who fell to the ground was a clear representative.
Guard, sure enough, there was something wrong with the man.
Lin was stunned and thought secretly, so he suddenly made a move, summoned the wind control technique, blew up the wild sand on the ground, covered his sight, came to the guard, grabbed him with his hand, shook his body, and returned to the door of the residence.
This happened only for a moment, and before the soldiers could react, they only felt that there was a flying sand and rocks in front of them, and the chaos was unclear.
Subconsciously, they retreated in panic, and when the feeling of flying sand and rocks dissipated, they looked at it and saw that a large number of torches in the hands of the brothers had been extinguished at that moment.
The room was plunged into darkness again.
They looked intently ahead, and vaguely saw an extra figure in the hand of the Taoist in front of them.
"It's General Zhang."
Someone shouted.
"Tell me, who ordered you to come?" Lin looked at General Zhang in his hand and said coldly.
Seeing that his life had fallen into Lin Jing's hands, General Zhang was panicked for a while, and hurriedly said, "Yes, it was Prime Minister Zhang who made me like this." ”
"Prime Minister Zhang?" Lin Zhen frowned, he didn't mess with that Prime Minister Zhang.
Zhang Shoujiang seemed to be very spineless, and summoned the culprit out at once.
"Why are you framing me?"
"Zhang, Master Zhang said you were too much of a hindrance."
"If you get in the way, you're going to put me to death?"
"Also, and..."
Before the words fell, dozens of masked people rushed out of several rooms, and without saying a word, those masked men drew their bright white silver knives and killed the bewildered soldiers on the side.
There was a scream, and before the soldiers could resist, they were punctured and fell in a pool of blood.
However, the other soldiers reacted, picked up their weapons, and launched a desperate struggle with the masked man.
This happened too fast, and before Lin could react to whether to intervene to stop the masked man from fighting, there was a sudden sound of breaking the house behind him, and a man with a dead face rushed up and smashed his fist.
Lin stunned the frightened Zhang Shou* general aside, waved his hand and summoned a large number of rockets, shooting towards the dead man's face...