Chapter 08: The Return of the Old Man
In the apse of the Thousand Machines Palace, Xie Lanyan was pinching Feiying's face and shaking it from side to side, and when he looked up, he didn't feel surprised to see only Cen Qing walking over.
Xie Lanyan let go of Feiying and picked up the cigarette gun by the lake again and took a deep breath, the choking smell of tobacco made Feiying, who was already pouting and unhappy, run towards Cen Qing even faster, the two glanced at each other thoughtfully, or Xie Lanyan took the lead in raising a smile and took the initiative to say hello: "This little girl is beautiful, she is worthy of being a descendant of the Lingyu clan, where did you pick her up?" The Lingyu Clan has not had a descendant for more than thirty years, and I thought it would have died a long time ago! ”
"Why did Sister Lan come back suddenly?" Cen Qing pulled Feiying to sit by the lake, and her fingertips hooked the special witch doctor technique of the Zuye Clan to help her rub her pinched red face, while Xie Lanyan slowly spit out the smoke ring and replied, "Isn't this just in time for the Snow Lake Festival, I also put lotus lanterns on the glacier with a few friends to pray for blessings, but I saw a few Snow Yaksha jumping out to make trouble, hehe, the monster even dared to make a Snow Lake Festival, it seems that the situation of the White Sect has been very difficult in recent years, right?" ”
Cen Qing didn't reply, Xie Lanyan touched the clear snow lake with a cigarette stick, she knew that this was a full moon-shaped lake dug by man, and there was a hidden mechanism at the bottom, only when the Snow Lake Festival was opened every year, the sect leader would cast a spell to draw out the water source of the glacier, her eyes stared at the water ripples and smiled slightly, and asked thoughtfully: "Is there still no response from Lord Feng Ji at this year's Snow Lake Festival?" I see that the White Tiger Legion has already been stationed in Fulong Town, and she still doesn't care, is it really that her health is too bad to interfere anymore, or has she given up on the aliens on this continent at all? ”
"Sister Lan." Although he still respectfully called her "sister", Cen Qing's tone was already a little unhappy.
Xie Lanyan giggled indifferently - in addition to the difference in appearance, the biggest difference between aliens and humans is faith, it is rumored that when Feiyuan experienced the catastrophe of falling from the sky, it was Feng Ji who led out all her spiritual power and transformed into a pair of bright flame wings to hold the ancient island and fall peacefully on the sea, since then the hot, powerful, pure and pure flame breath has been deeply engraved in the bones and blood of every alien, and it has been remembered eternally from generation to generation.
But human beings do not have this special feeling, their emperor is the descendant of the legendary god of the sun and the moon in the heavenly realm, and is named after the sun and the moon, and given the surname "Ming".
After that disaster, Feng Ji fell into decline because of the huge consumption, and had to sleep and rest for a long time with a spell called "Divine Sleep", and the place where she lived in seclusion was the source of the glacier, because there was a powerful barrier to cut off the interference of the outside world, for nearly a thousand years, whether it was a human or a foreign race, even an arrogant monster could not enter that water area to disturb her, except for self-awakening, the only way to find her was this artificial lake in the apse of the Thousand Machines Palace of the White Sect General Altar, which was formed by the convergence of the water from the source of the glacier that she had dug with her own hands." Snow Lake", only on the days of the annual Snow Lake Festival, she can be called by the sect leader to cast a spell.
Of course, whether she responds or not is completely out of the control of the White Sect, although her last appearance was only a short year ago, but if you continue to go back in time, it was at least fifty years ago.
Obviously, he didn't want to make the relationship stiff so quickly, Xie Lanyan immediately stopped the topic just now, and said seriously with a change of face: "Ah Qing, although it is not the first time that the military pavilion has sent troops to attack the White Sect, it has always tacitly not crossed the critical line of Fulong Town, this time not only directly stationed the army into the city, but also seems to have reassigned someone from the imperial capital to come over and personally lead the troops?" I heard that it was the second son of Tianzheng Mansion...... He studied under Kunlun Mountain in the Central Plains, and is the same door as your master, right? ”
Sure enough, it was a few words that turned the topic back to the person she cared about the most, Cen Qing nodded indifferently, and did not hide it: "Well, it is indeed the second son of Tianzheng Mansion." ”
"Oh......" Xie Lanyan's gaze became a little confused, "Your master still has no news at all?" Hehe, after so many years, they have provoked such a big basket, is it really one missing and the other living in seclusion, allowing the White Sect to be surrounded and suppressed by the imperial army and indifferent? It is said that the ancestral motto of Kunlun Mountain is 'to help the world with compassion', I don't think your master is worthy of such a noble admonition at all, by the way, do they still have a daughter? I don't know if she will inherit her father's rhetoric or her mother's ignorance in the future? Hee-hee......"
Without waiting for Xie Lanyan to cover his mouth and let out a yin and yang weird laugh, Cen Ge actually strode to the snow lake from outside the door, different from his sister's calm and introverted, this brother undoubtedly feels extremely oppressive and tough, listening to the tone is as calm as water, in fact, every word seems to be able to stir up a thousand waves: "In the first five years of his reign, the sect leader often did some deviant and extremely outrageous things, and it is said that Sister Lan came forward to calm the complaints of several great elders in the sect, and has always supported his every decision without regrets. If you say that he is a fancy talker, it is also what you are used to, right? ”
"You ......" Xie Lanyan's still smiling face was cloudy in a blink of an eye, and he replied stubbornly without letting go of his tongue, "It's all taught by a master, your mouth is much stronger than Ah Qing, and now the White Tiger Legion in the military pavilion is coming down the mountain, do you still have the heart to ridicule me?" Hehe, it seems that I don't have to help you out of the siege on this trip, it is more appropriate to collect your body directly. ”
The atmosphere between the two standing at each other was inexplicably tense, Cen Ge just watched coldly, biting the most critical two words and asking rhetorically: "Break the siege?" ”
Xie Lanyan continued to spit out the circles in his eyes, and replied calmly with a confident look: "The White Tiger Legion has a total of five detachments, and the patrol range covers the entire Weeping Snow Plateau, and generally not very important tasks will not be assembled at the same time, at present, although the imperial capital has ordered to attack the White Sect, only the nearest third team has been stationed in Fulong Town for a month, and the number of assembled people is far less than expected, which shows that those officials themselves are also playing the wishful thinking of some invisible people in their hearts, although the White Sect is outnumbered, But the few spells in the sect can be defeated by one hundred! ”
As she spoke, an atomized butterfly suddenly spit out from the smoke ring, Xie Lanyan squinted her eyes and took it in the palm of her hand, and winked mysteriously at the brother and sister: "For ordinary believers, the White Sect is the supreme faith, but for people like us who are well versed in the internal truth, you don't really regard the White Sect as some kind of savior, right?" If the power of human beings is based on the powerful position given by the class gatekeeper, then the White Sect is divided into high and low according to the level of bloodline, blood spells, bone spells, soul splitting and insect control, which one is not a powerful spell cultivated by stepping on the lives of countless ordinary people? It's just a half-catty and eighty-tael means, and no one is more innocent than the other. ”
Cen Ge laughed quietly, this kind of invisible thing was suddenly brought to the table, which really made the three of them silent for a moment at the same time, only the sect leader who tilted his head asked curiously: "Sister Aqing said that I can't learn the spells in the sect until I grow up a little more, are you talking about those spells?" ”
"Teach you?" Xie Lanyan stretched out her hand and pinched the little girl's face, and said meaningfully, "In the past, the sect leader could learn whatever he wanted, but now...... Not to mention the Soul Splitting Dafa that has been stolen for thirty years, the remaining three doors have also been sealed and not allowed to be touched. ”
"Why?" Feiying blinked curiously, and was interrupted by Cen Ge before Xie Lanyan could answer, "A-Qing, take her to play elsewhere." ”
Xie Lanyan pursed her lips and snickered, although Feiying pouted unhappily, but when she looked up and saw the stern gaze of the Great Commander, she still left obediently.
Xie Lanyan took a deep breath of smoke with emotion, and there was a cold light in her eyes: "The remaining three spells were sealed in the secret room by your master with the heart method of Kunlun Mountain, she said that this kind of martial arts is too dark and vicious, both to the caster and the object of the spell is extremely dangerous, the sect leader has always favored her, since she said so, the sect leader will follow her will seal it, and no longer allow the disciples to contact and learn." ”
"Those three spells are indeed too vicious." Cen Ge's eyes also changed, but he did not refute her words - although the founder of the White Sect is Lord Feng Ji, she herself has not interfered in all the affairs of the sect since the creation of the sect, and the so-called four forbidden techniques are also a collection of various strange martial arts in the long time after falling into the sky.
But the sealed spell came from Kunlun Mountain, he was instructed by the master to know the way to crack it, in that chaotic years, in order to deal with the disciples who had ghosts, he illegally entered the secret room and practiced the remaining three forbidden techniques privately, until he reopened the sealed altar in order to improve his cultivation, he finally understood the master's good intentions - it turned out that under the tall altar carved with gorgeous red lotus flowers were sealed the creatures that had been slaughtered for hundreds of years, and their souls were bound by the blood curse and became the faithful slaves of the Divine Cult, Their corpses still sink in the deepest part of the altar, ready to fight for the religion that robbed them of their lives at the sound of a bone curse, and the red butterflies that flutter on the altar are insect-controlled necromancers, beautiful and enchanting, dancing towards others and ...... Capture it as a new puppet.
These three forbidden techniques can not only be performed alone, but they can also be multiplied by the urging of the Soul Splitting Dafa, but the Soul Splitting Dafa has been stolen for more than 30 years, and he has only heard about it from the history books in the sect, and he has no chance to see it.
Xie Lanyan's fingers didn't know when a blood-colored butterfly appeared, her wings were closed with strange spiritual power, and her eyes slowly tightened: "I am your master's predecessor, and I am lucky that she learned the art of controlling insects before she was a good person, and now because of the Snow Lake Festival, a large number of ordinary people have gathered near the main altar of the White Sect, although the military pavilion will not protect the alien race, but it cannot slaughter innocent people, otherwise they will not be able to stand still for so long, hehe, the opportunity must not be lost and not come again, When the Snow Lake Festival is over and the crowd disperses, you won't have a chance to resist. ”
Cen Ge stood under the moon, the moonlight sprinkled on the hem of his white clothes like water, and there was shock, hesitation, and an indescribable complex emotion on his seemingly silent face.
Xie Lanyan flicked lightly, and the blood-colored butterfly lightly crossed an arc, first dotted the water of the snow lake, and then slowly flew to Cen Ge's shoulder, he didn't speak, just turned his head slightly and confronted the butterfly's equally bewitching eyes silently, and heard Xie Lanyan's murmur in his ears: "The relationship between human beings and aliens has long been like fire and water and it is impossible to reconcile, so many years of army invasion, all kinds of extermination massacres have occurred from time to time, and alien people are at peace and dislike disputes with encounters, and they are scattered all over the place and are easy to be broken one by one, The only thing that can make the army suffer a little is the White Sect, once the White Sect is destroyed, the alien race will face the catastrophe of annihilation. ”
Cen Ge finally waved his hand to pat the butterfly away, and his eyes changed several times in the staggered edge: "The great elders in the sect often say that Sister Lan has only one person in her heart, even if the sect leader repeatedly acts out of line, you, as the great secretary in charge of the doctrine, will also turn a blind eye to tolerate him, why haven't you seen her for a while, Sister Lan has suddenly become a heroine who understands righteousness and can strategize?" The situation in the imperial capital is complicated, the crown prince and the governor Gao are competing for the military power of the military cabinet, and the White Sect is just a pawn in their struggle for power, but if they openly slaughter innocent people with forbidden arts, it will really cause public anger and put the White Sect on the cusp! ”
"Isn't there still a lot of people killed by the White Sect? Outsiders don't know, forget it, you- don't tell me you don't know! Xie Lanyan raised her tone and retorted unceremoniously, then smoked a big cigarette contemptuously and spat out white mist at him, "You don't want to learn from your master to be a good person, do you?" But your master is not a good person at all, the stolen Shenyue of the royal family was brought to Kunlun Mountain by her, right? She should know what the consequences of taking away that piece of ancient jade would be, but she still left without hesitation, do you know that for this matter, the eldest princess was deposed by the emperor and demoted to a pariah, but she was at ease, hiding alone in Kunlun Mountain and never coming back......"
"That's enough, don't mention Master again!" Cen Ge interrupted her in annoyance, when he stepped into the altar and saw the scene of blood and bones intertwined under the red lotus, and saw countless butterflies skimming his cheeks and hair with a sensational smirk, at that moment he almost wanted to completely destroy the three-door forbidden technique in his hand, but that extremely special paper did not move at all under his spell, and even a sneering face appeared in the flames as if mocking his indiscretion, at that time he knew that this was the point of no return, as long as he was contaminated with the power of forbidden art, All the souls sealed in the altar will haunt him endlessly.
In the next second, Xie Lanyan returned to normal with a smile, and muttered in a low voice: "I'm just giving you a suggestion, after all, the current White Sect is up to you, and it's better to use ordinary people as shields than to fight with the army ourselves, right?" ”
Cen Ge looked at her noncommittally, like a reminder and more like a warning: "Sister Lan, the Bai Sect has indeed killed people for so many years, just like what you just said, no one is more innocent than anyone else, in fact, the high-level of the imperial capital doesn't care about the life or death of ordinary people at all, if you just kill a few people in private or arrest them to study the forbidden arts, it won't cause too much turmoil, but if you openly threaten ordinary people as bargaining chips...... Then there will be no turning back. ”
"A way out?" Xie Lanyan was stunned for a while, but she choked on the cigarette in her hand and coughed, but when she turned to Cen Ge suspiciously, she only saw a back figure that had already disappeared, the other party waved her hand casually, and replied in a low voice, "Sister Lan, rest first, I will consider your suggestion." ”
"Retreat...... What a way out. She pronounced these two words again, her expression had returned to calmness, and she picked up a blood-colored butterfly and released it gently, her lips and teeth lightly closed to transmit the sound with spiritual magic, "He seems to have other plans...... The Grand Commander himself is careful. ”