Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Scourge of Killing
Gongsun Yang looked at the Red Rose Immortal Sword, and his expression of joy was as if his parents were looking at their children. Mi Junliang didn't speak, and looked at Gongsun Yang who was immersed in satisfaction with a smile. After a while, Gongsun Yang came back to his senses, looked at Mi Junliang's smiling face, and said embarrassedly: "Brother Mi, forgive me!" and then handed the Red Qiang Sword to Mi Junliang.
After Mi Junliang took the sword, he flicked the blade of the sword lightly with his right hand, the red sword trembled, he immediately stroked the sword body, and exclaimed: "Although it is a medium-grade immortal sword, the refining level is very high, it seems that the sword refiner is at least a master of the Silent Annihilation Realm." But I didn't expect that Brother Gongsun made a soft sword. ”
Gongsun Yang touched his goatee: "The master I first worshipped used a soft sword, so I have always had a soft soft sword." Thanks to the fact that there are not many people who use soft swords, I got my wish at this Ten Thousand Immortals Conference and found this fairy sword. ”
Mi Junliang nodded, waved the fairy sword a few times at will, and continued to praise: "The material of the sword is not precious, but the quality is excellent, coupled with the superb refining techniques, it is indeed the pinnacle of the mid-grade fairy sword." I guess, it must be refined by some of the six major sects besides my sect, right?"
"Brother Mi has good eyesight, you are right, my Red Qiang Sword was traded with the Taiqing Sect, and it must have come from the hands of an elder of the sect. Gongsun Yang said.
"Taiqing Sect ......" Mi Junliang thought about it and returned the Red Qiang Sword to Gongsun Yang.
Gongsun Yang took the sword and asked suspiciously, "Brother Mi, what's wrong?"
Mi Junliang came back to his senses: "Oh, no. I was slightly surprised, the medicinal materials that my Tianyun Sect traded back in the Ten Thousand Immortal Conference were all relatively precious medicinal materials and minerals, and they were huge in quantity. In terms of strength and status, the Taiqing Sect is still above our sect, and the items they need must be even more ...... Brother Gongsun, it's not that I look down on you, you're just a casual cultivator, it's hard for me to imagine that you can take out enough to exchange this immortal sword at once......
Gongsun Yang smiled: "What Brother Mi said is very true. There are also strong and weak cultivators, such as the master of 'Shuimu Sanren' Mr. Yi, all kinds of rare medicinal materials, minerals, etc. are like grass mustard to him, and for a loose cultivator like me who is hard and does not have strong strength, it is indeed not easy to exchange from the hands of the Taiqing Sect to the middle grade immortal sword. However, thanks to my good luck this time, I accidentally obtained something that the Taiqing Sect was interested in, and I successfully obtained the Red Qiang Sword. ”
Mi Junliang listened to this and asked with great interest, "Oh, what is the Taiqing Sect interested in?"
"To be exact, it's not the Taiqing Sect, but something that the Taiqing Sect Master is interested in, it's just a piece of Wenhua jade pendant, I don't know why, Sect Master Li took a fancy to that jade pendant, probably he wanted to give it to a disciple who had just started cultivating immortals. Gongsun Yang inserted the Red Qiang Sword into the sword holster on his back.
"Wen Hua Yupei, I can't imagine that even the dignified Taiqing Sect Master wants it. I'm curious, where did Brother Gongsun get that piece of Wenhua jade pendant? Is there anything special about a mere jade pendant?"
Gongsun Yang frowned slightly and recalled carefully for a while: "Brother Mi, to be honest, that jade pendant didn't stay in my hand for a long time, I got it from a friend of the Poison Refining Sect, and I used it to exchange it for the Red Qiang Sword without looking closely." I only remember that the jade pendant is inlaid with a Bilangya, so for people who are not high in cultivation and lack the elixir to stabilize the mind, the jade pendant is also a rare thing......
Mi Junliang nodded: "I see." Bilangya, Wen Huayu, with a jade pendant is equivalent to taking low-level Qingshen pills for a long time. Alright, Brother Gongsun, we're almost rested, it's time to hit the road. ”
"Good. Why won't this heavy rain stop......" Gongsun Yang responded and walked outside the pavilion.
Suddenly, he heard a sword roar behind him, followed by a sharp pain in his waist, he didn't react to what was going on at all, only felt a coldness spread from his back to his abdomen, and with a "whoosh", a fairy sword glowing with blue light came out from the dantian position with gushing blood.
"You...... You ......" Gongsun Yang turned his head in horror, and as soon as he opened his mouth, blood gushed up his throat.
Mi Junliang drew the immortal sword hard, and Gongsun Yang fell to the ground, and blood slowly spread from under him. He felt that his life was passing little by little, and soon there was only breath out and no breath in. Mi Junliang reversed the blade of his sword downward, aimed at Gongsun Yang's left back heart, and stabbed it fiercely.
At the moment before his death, Gongsun Yang's heart was full of remorse and unwillingness. He regretted believing in a sanctimonious despicable person, believing that the other party, as a disciple of the dignified Tianyun Sect, would not kill a killer for the sake of a mere middle-grade immortal sword, and regretted that he easily showed his "wealth" and attracted covetousness. He was unwilling to practice hard for decades, unwilling to give his life to the fairy sword he had just obtained, and unwilling to die in such a wild and uninhabited place, and there was no one who even knew. However, the reality is so cruel, everything has come to naught under the blood-stained pale blue fairy sword.
Poor Gongsun Yang didn't know what he was dying for. The blue fairy sword in Mi Junliang's hand is no less grade than the Red Qiang Sword, he killed Gongsun Yang, not to kill people at all.
Mi Junliang took off the sword holster on Gongsun Yang's back, but the Red Qiang Sword is also a medium-grade fairy sword, and it is a pity to lose it here. As for Gongsun Yang's original low-grade immortal sword, Mi Junliang didn't even look at it. After taking the sword, he slashed several swords at the remaining pillars of the pavilion, completely collapsing the pavilion and crushing Gongsun Yang's body underneath. "This time it was a blessing in misfortune...... It seems that he will rush back to the sect immediately. Mi Junliang muttered to himself.
He did not dare to delay any longer, and braved the heavy rain to rush to the Miyu Basin day and night. But no matter how urgent he was, his walking speed was limited, and two days later, he arrived at the Qinxue River. Due to the heavy rain, the water level of the river has been much higher than before, and the waves are turbulent under the strong wind, and the boats that come and go on the river on weekdays have disappeared, and only the wind and rain are left on the vast river.
"What can I do!" Mi Junliang was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, it was impossible for the Qinxue River to swim through such a wide river.
When he was anxious, there was a sudden sound of a sword breaking through the sky in the distance. He looked up and saw a blue-robed man flying towards him with his sword against the river.
Mi Junliang waved his hand happily and shouted, "Senior brother!"
The man of Edgeworth is very fat, with a pair of triangular eyes, and at first glance he is quite a scheming person. He fell to Mi Junliang's side and said with a smile: "Master guessed correctly, you are really trapped by the Qinxue River." Come on, I'll take you back to the sect. ”
Mi Junliang said like Lianzhu Cannon: "Sixth Senior Brother, something happened, what we did back then has been exposed! Quick, hurry back to the sect and tell the Second Senior Brother and the Fifth Senior Brother!"
When the sixth senior brother heard this, his eyes widened in surprise, but it was a pity that no matter how wide his triangular eyes were, they felt very small compared to his bloated face: "What? How could it be revealed? What the hell is going on?"
Mi Junliang urged with fire: "I'll talk to you again on the way, let's go!"
The two jumped onto the fairy sword, quickly crossed the Qinxue River, and flew towards the Mimi Basin.
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In a certain room of Tianyun Sect, Chao Zhongwei was meditating. "Why do my eyelids keep jumping today, and make me so disturbed?" he said to himself. Since he couldn't settle down, he simply got up and went to the window, looking at the heavy rain outside. Rainwater flows down from the eaves, forming curtains. The trees swayed in the wind, the flowers and plants swayed in the rain, and Chao Zhongwei was distraught. Suddenly, the door was slammed open, and two drenched people rushed in, shouting in unison: "Second senior brother, something is wrong!"
Chao Zhongwei fixed his eyes and saw that it was the sixth junior brother Fan Yuteng and the seventh junior brother Mi Junliang, he frowned: "Why are you so alarmed?"
Mi Junliang hurriedly said: "Second Senior Brother, the matter of the year has been revealed!"
Chao Zhongwei's brows furrowed even tighter, and he sat on the chair: "What is revealed, close the door and speak slowly!"
Mi Junliang hurriedly turned around and closed the door, Fan Yuteng took a breath, and then said, "Second Senior Brother, that's the case." The piece of Wenhua jade pendant that you gave to Xu Yinquan of the Poison Refining Sect back then was traded by him to someone else at this Ten Thousand Immortal Conference, and then that person happened to use the jade pendant to exchange the immortal sword with the Taiqing Sect Master......"
"What!" Chao Zhongwei was angry, and bounced up from the chair with a "Teng" ground, "This Zhang Bohuai, I told me not to let others know about the existence of Wen Huayupei, especially Taiqing Sect, but how could I let Taiqing Sect know!"
"Second Senior Brother, what should we do now?" Mi Junliang asked uneasily, he was most afraid that Li Yuanxiao would come to the door for this matter.
Chao Zhongwei didn't answer, pacing back and forth in the room, Fan Yuteng and Mi Junliang looked at him with blank eyes, waiting for him to make an idea. Chao Zhongwei said to himself in his heart not to panic, while clarifying his thoughts and said, "I don't know if Li Yuanxiao knows that Wen Huayupei is from us now...... Anyway, he followed the clues and looked down, and sooner or later he would find out here, and the top priority was to take some measures to make amends. Without further ado, call the fifth junior brother, let's hurry up to the Poison Refining Sect!"
Chao Zhongwei took the lead and led the three junior disciples to run outside the sect. When passing by the Kite Flying Palace, I suddenly heard Master Ye Shenrong's voice: "You four are not good at cultivating, where are you going in such a hurry?"
It turned out that Ye Shenrong happened to walk out of the Kite Flying Hall and bumped into the four people who were in a hurry.
The three juniors behind Chao Zhongwei were speechless for a while, and they didn't know how to answer, but Chao Zhongwei was more calm and replied calmly: "Master, do you know the master and apprentice of Zhang Bohuai of the Poison Refining Sect? I heard that they had been killed by others, so I was anxious to go to the Poison Refining Sect to find out. ”
Ye Shenrong heard this: "Oh, there is such a thing? Zhang Bohuai is an elder of the Poison Refining Sect, and someone would provoke the Poison Refining Sect?
Chao Zhongwei shook his head: "They were assassinated, and I don't know who did it." ”
Ye Shenrong narrowed his eyes: "Hmm, no matter what, the grievances of the Poison Refining Sect have nothing to do with my Tianyun Sect. However, the person who can kill Zhang Bohuai is probably not low. You are here to visit you out of the moral sense of your friends, and remember not to get involved in the grudges of other people, lest you invite death. Alright, you guys go!"
"Remember. The four of them immediately left the sect.
In the sky above the Dragon Claw Mountain Range, three immortal swords flew side by side.
Fan Yuteng opened his mouth and said: "Second Senior Brother, I have something to understand, how do you know that Zhang Bohuai has been plotted by someone?"
Chao Zhongwei sneered: "He's still alive and well." If I didn't say that just now, Master will be suspicious, so how can I implement the next step?"
Mi Junliang asked happily, "Second Senior Brother already has a plan?"
"The plan, as early as when Zhang Bohuai asked me to ask for a jade pendant, I had already thought about it. That piece of Wenhua jade pendant was originally intended to be given to the little junior brother, but Zhang Bohuai had no choice but to take a fancy to it, so he had to ask me for it. I was afraid that this matter would leak out, so I warned Zhang Bohuai, if the news leaked, it might bring ruin to his Poison Refining Sect, and you were all present at the time, didn't you understand what I meant?"
Fan Yuteng said: "A few of us are stupid, and we also ask the second senior brother to say it clearly." ”
Chao Zhongwei said with a sneer: "We can't afford the anger of the Taiqing Sect, so once the East Window incident happens, we need to find a scapegoat...... Hum. ”
Mi Junliang nodded again and again: "I understand, the second senior brother wants to push this matter onto the head of the Poison Refining Sect." However, they are definitely not willing to carry this black cauldron, what should they do then?"
On the fairy sword on the right, the cold young man who had been silent suddenly whispered: "Dead people, they can't speak......
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People who don't understand the meaning of Chao Zhongwei's words, including Zhang Bohuai, he doesn't know how much trouble Chao Zhongwei has done. Now, Zhang Bohuai is sorting out the things he brought back from the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference in the sect.
The number of people in the Poison Refining Sect is not large, but it occupies a large area, and there are seven large courtyards built on the seven peaks of the mountain behind the sect, which cultivate or store various poisons respectively. In the Miasma Garden, the branches and foliage of the blood-sealed throat, the Variable Leaf Tree, the Poisonous Sumac Tree, the Wild Bamboo Cypress, and the Black Olive are luxuriant; in the Grass Poison Garden, the Broken Gut Grass, the Chill Fern, the Fishy Buttercup, the Tripterygium Vine, the Butterfly Grass, and so on are densely packed; in the Insect Poison Garden, the Soul Worm Spider, the Soul Devouring Ant, the Black Dead Bee, the Snow Vermilion Clam, and the Cryptopterus Moth are all raised; in the Gu Poison Garden, there are a variety of bottles and jars such as the Green Silkworm Gu, the Loach Gu, the Scorn Gu, the Plague Gu, and the Stone Gu; in the Corpse Poison Garden, the Thousand Corpse Powder, the Evil Ghost Pill, the Rotten Qi Disperse, the Netherworld Blood, and the Abdominal Corpse Correction are all raised; in the Silk Poison Garden, the Crane Ding Hong, the Red Chensha Tree, the Rainy Night Ying, and so on are all lined up; in the Corpse Poison Garden, the Thousand Corpse Powder, the Evil Ghost Pill, the Rotten Qi Disperse, the Netherworld Blood, and the Abdominal Corpse Correction are all stinking; in the Silk Poison Garden, the Crane Ding Hong, the Red Chensha Tree, the Rainy Night Ying, and so on, are all raised; in the Silk Poison Garden, the Crane Ding Hong, the Red Chensha Tree, the Rainy Night Ying, Dark stones, ink silk crystals, etc. are piled up like mountains, and in the flower poison garden, blood begonias, wisteria flowers, fairy bells, poinsettias, mandala and so on are particularly charming.
The "Seven Poison Garden" of the Poison Refining Sect is very famous, and the poisons in the garden are thriving, but the environment outside the garden is barren. Because the poison is too toxic, there is not a single grass growing in a radius of miles outside the Seven Poison Garden. At first, the food fed to the poisonous insects was the wild beasts hunted in the nearby mountains and forests, but as time passed, the beasts hunted less and less, but the poisonous insects were raised more and more, and finally there were terrifying rumors that the Poison Refining Sect had captured people alive and fed them with poison.
The Seven Poison Garden is regarded as the foundation of the Poison Refining Sect, and all the poisons used by the disciples in the sect are taken from here, so the Poison Refining Sect regards the Seven Poison Gardens as an important place for the sect, and will never allow people to approach it easily. The six elders of the Poison Refining Sect, together with the sect master, were each responsible for guarding a poison garden. Zhang Bohuai lives in the insect poison garden.
"Second Senior Brother, there won't be a problem if we approach the Insect Poison Garden without waiting for a report, right?" Mi Jun's conscience was uneasy.
Chao Zhongwei looked at the courtyard wall in the distance: "Don't worry. The poisonous insects in the insect poison garden are kept in cages or pools, and they will not come out to hurt people at will. And how do you report this kind of thing? It's better that no one knows, and the cleaner the better. ”
"Then what if Zhang Bohuai is not in the sect?" Fan Yuteng asked.
"Think about it, Zhang Bohuai has just returned from the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference, and he will definitely have to clean up. Besides, with such heavy rain, where else could he go? In a moment I will deceive his master and his apprentice and lead him to the woods of the valley to the west, where you have laid an ambush and left me a mark. Don't let his apprentice escape, Zhang Bohuai will be handed over to me to deal with. Chao Zhongwei had already made a plan.
After watching the three junior disciples disappear into the fork in the road leading to the valley, Chao Zhongwei continued to move forward and came to the gate of the Insect Poison Garden. Still outside the door, he could already hear the sound of insects chirping and flapping wings in the garden, thinking of the colorful poisonous insects that he had visited before, Chao Zhongwei couldn't help but shudder. After settling down, going through the whole plan in his mind again, and making sure that there were no loopholes, he took a pill, and then touched the wall tiles on the left side of the door in the order of three, six, and nine from top to bottom, only to hear the door lock "bang". Chao Zhongwei kicked hard with his foot, and the door slowly opened. This organ was told to Chao Zhongwei by Zhang Bohuai himself, and each of the Seven Poisons Garden was protected by a poisonous array, and even the courtyard walls, including the gate, were coated with colorless and odorless poison, so that the intruders could not return. And Chao Zhongwei and Zhang Bohuai had a very good relationship, so Zhang Bohuai told him frankly and gave him some antidote to resist the poison array.
In the insect poison garden, there are only a few houses, and Zhang Bohuai's master and apprentice live here. Chao Zhongwei came to the door of the largest room, and saw that the lights in the room were bright, and several figures were busy back and forth, and Zhang Bohuai's voice came from his ears: "These medicinal materials, send them to the Gu Poison Garden tomorrow, and those over there, they will be sent to the Miasma Poison Garden and handed over to the sect master, you all do a good job of marking, don't send them wrong!"
"Heh, I guessed correctly, he's packing up the things from the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference. Chao Zhongwei thought to himself. He opened his mouth and shouted: "Brother Zhang, I haven't seen you for a long time, is it okay to come?"
When Zhang Bohuai heard Chao Zhongwei's voice, he was slightly stunned, and hurriedly walked out of the room to greet him: "It turned out to be Brother Chao, please come in." ”
Entering the room, Chao Zhongwei's eyes swept away, there were a total of three disciples in the room, all of whom were Zhang Bohuai's apprentices.
"It just so happened that his disciples were there, so it was convenient to act. Chao Zhongwei said secretly in his heart.
"Brother Chao, please be seated. I don't know what happened to your visit at night?" Zhang Bohuai picked up the teapot, poured two cups, and handed one cup to Chao Zhongwei. He pondered in his stomach, could it be because of Wen Huayupei's matter, the people of the Taiqing Sect found the Tianyun Sect? Because he was worried in his heart, Zhang Bohuai had been carefully observing Chao Zhongwei's expression.
Chao Zhongwei took the tea unhurriedly and took a sip: "Brother Zhang, in this Ten Thousand Immortals Conference, my sect exchanged a large number of medicinal materials and minerals, some of which are superfluous, and the master asked me to bring them to your sect." If there is anything you need, you can take it first, and I will give the rest to your sect master tomorrow, so I will go up the mountain overnight to look for you. ”
Zhang Bohuai temporarily put his mind at ease and said happily: "That's really thank you Brother Chao for remembering me." I really wanted to refine some pills and immortal swords for a few apprentices, but the materials allocated by the sect were really a little stretched. I don't know where those things are now, have they ever been brought up the mountain?"
Chao Zhongwei said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, you and I have been friends for a long time, so naturally we want to do something convenient for you." It was raining heavily, and I was worried that the items would get wet, so I wrapped the medicinal herbs and sealed the minerals in the altar with a few junior disciples and transported them together, and several junior disciples were afraid of the poison in your garden, and they were afraid of being seen by others, so they stopped in the valley to the west, and you and I went to get it together. ”
Chao Zhongwei's mind is very meticulous, even the details are considered very clearly, and there are no loopholes in his words, Zhang Bohuai is naturally convinced. He drank all the tea in the cup, beckoned the three apprentices to stop, and followed Chao Zhongwei down the mountain with canvases, altar urns and other items. As everyone knows, when they stepped out of the insect poison garden, it was equivalent to stepping on the Huangquan Road.