Chapter 22: Planning
The last time Yuan Qing came here, he just hurriedly received the merit and left, and he didn't look at it carefully, but he remembered that the deacon of this hall was a senior brother named Zhao Heng.
Now re-enter the hall, only to see a huge jade on the east and west sides of the main hall, which is covered with small characters of seal gold, and there are three or two monks under it to meditate, and occasionally acquaintances whisper a few words.
Yuan Qing glanced left and right, and then walked towards the jade bi on the east side.
When I came to the front, I took a closer look and found that the tasks on the list can be roughly divided into four categories: alchemy, tool making, acquisition, and help. Among them, there are many types of content such as asking for help, there are those who capture spirit pets and look for helpers, some who find that the big demon is not able to do it alone, there are those who invite formation masters to explore the ruins of the immortal mansion, and there is even one that says that they want to find a Taoist couple and build the avenue together.
Yuan Qing was very self-aware and skipped the two categories of alchemy and utensils, and only looked for suitable tasks in the two categories of acquisition and help, but the acquisition of a class of treasures and herbs marked was unheard of, so he had no choice but to look at the column of asking for help one by one.
"Looking for a disciple who guards the Medicine Garden, you can build a foundation period or above, and you can make thirty merits per month. ”
"Looking for those who are proficient in the formation to explore the Immortal Mansion together, and the cultivation above the later stage of the Jie Dan, two thousand merits, talk about it in detail. ”
"Seek the same way and kill a total of sixth-level demon beasts, and the merits will be divided equally. ”
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Looking at the column, it is either because his cultivation is too low, or because he has nothing to do except swordsmanship, and there is no task that is suitable.
Yuan Qing smiled bitterly, turned around and walked towards the jade bi on the west side. After a long time of incense, he let out a long sigh, and the result was no different.
Just as he was thinking about whether to take some of the unknown ores in the storage bag that his grandfather gave him and exchange them for some merit to relieve his urgent needs, an eager voice came into his ears.
"Isn't this Senior Brother Yuan, why do you have time to come here today, but you want to take on a task?" I saw a monk in a pale yellow robe walking quickly, this person was five feet tall, thin and slightly hunched, swaying forward and backward between walks, with a very hypocritical smile on his face.
Yuan Qing's face twitched, and then he arched his hand and said, "I've seen Senior Brother Zhao." ”
Zhao Heng returned the salute and asked, "Can you find a suitable task?"
Yuan Qing smiled bitterly and said: "There are quite a few tasks suitable for the foundation building period monks, but they are not good at the next level, and they are annoyed at this time." ”
Zhao Heng laughed and said: "Senior brother is too humble, under a sword, the monks in the middle stage of foundation building have almost no power to fight back, how can this kind of swordsmanship be called useless?"
Yuan Qing's heart tightened, and he asked casually: "Senior brother said that when will I have such majesty?"
Zhao Heng smiled slightly, then his lips and teeth opened slightly, and a subtle and clear voice sounded in Yuan Qing's ears: "Senior brother doesn't need to hide it, in the battle that day, Li Yang has already told me with a transmission note, don't hide it from my junior brother, I have been oppressed by the Su family for a long time, and my junior brother really gave me a bad breath." ”
Yuan Qing was a little surprised by this kind of secret transmission method, and after hearing the words, a cold color flashed in his eyes, and before he could say anything, he heard Zhao Heng continue: "Senior brother, come with me." After speaking, he walked towards the back hall.
Yuan Qing hesitated slightly, but eventually followed.
When I arrived at the back hall, I saw that there was a jade bi on the wall, but it was much smaller than the front, and the tasks on it were all written in cinnabar. Zhao Heng explained aloud at this time:
"This is the killing list, the person on the list is not a big traitor, the crime is monstrous, it is the remnant of the demon beast, and it is the party that is the disaster, and it is very suitable to take the advantage of the swordsmanship of the junior brother to take this list. It's just that there is no restriction on cultivation on this list, and the junior and junior still have to be carefully selected, otherwise they will make mistakes and inevitably die. ”
Yuan Qing looked at the first item on the list: "Intercept and kill Zeng Hai of Huangquan Sect, with 100,000 merits." ”
Curious, he probed his divine thoughts into it, and suddenly there was a murderous portrait with a face full of flesh and a fierce anger in his mind, and there was a small line of introduction below: "Zeng Hai, a monk of the Huangquan Sect, in the late stage of the Jiedan." Frightened, Yuan Qing hurriedly withdrew his thoughts.
Then look at the next one, "Intercept and kill Niu Gang of the Blood Flame Sect, with a hundred thousand merits." The divine thought probed, and a vicious portrait with bull's eyes and pig nose, covered with blood, jumped into his mind, and the small characters were attached to it: "Niu Gang, Monk of Xueyan Mountain, late stage of Yudan." ”
Yuan Qing put away his thoughts, turned his head to Zhao Heng and said, "Senior Brother Zhao, the people on this list won't all be monks in the Yudan period, right? In the end, the irony in his tone is so ironic that even the deaf can hear it.
Zhao Heng turned a blind eye to this, smiled slightly and said, "Senior brother, don't be impatient, you look back." ”
Hearing this, Yuan Qing looked directly at the last line, "Intercept and kill the Liang Dynasty, and the merit is one hundred." ”
Divine thoughts probed in, and a figure with a sharp beak and a monkey cheek with a lustful face appeared in his mind, with small words attached to it: "Liang Dynasty, scattered cultivation, the early stage of foundation building." ”
Seeing that Yuan Qing's face was groaning, Zhao Heng said on the side: "Senior brother may wish to look up." ”
Yuan Qing looked up and looked up again, and it turned out to be a rescue mission: the Han family's spiritual vein seemed to be under enemy attack, and the two Qi refining stage disciples who were in charge of guarding were missing, and their whereabouts are still unknown, so two senior brothers in the foundation building period were specially invited to investigate. Afterwards, each person made fifty merits, and another hundred spirit stones as a thank-you gift.
Yuan Qing withdrew from his thoughts, his eyes flickering.
Zhao Heng saw that Yuan Qing hesitated, and said persuasively: "Senior brother may wish to take this matter, the matter of investigation is generally relatively simple, even if there is an enemy attack, it is also the realm of qi training, at most, it is only the beginning of the foundation, with the swordsmanship of the junior brother, it is not easy to capture; ”
Yuan Qing raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked with a smile: "Senior brother is good friends with the Han family?"
Zhao Heng grinned and said: "Don't hide it from my junior brother, I have a very good personal relationship with the young master of the Han family, if it weren't for my duty, I would have left there a long time ago to relieve his worries." This matter has been on the list for a few days, but no one has picked it up. Since Senior Brother Li Yang and I have been communicating with me, I feel that it is most appropriate for Senior Brother to take over this matter, and I am looking forward to my junior brother coming these days. ”
The more Yuan Qing listened, the more the smile on his face became, and instead of talking about the task, he asked a question: "Senior brother, please, why don't you see Senior Brother Yu Dan coming here?
Zhao Heng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "Most of the monks in the Dan period are assigned by the sect and have experience outside, so naturally few people come here to take on merit tasks, not to mention extremely dangerous tasks such as working hard with the same level; ”
Yuan Qing nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "Senior brother has one more question, dare to ask senior brother, have you ever seen a female cultivator named Zhu Ling'er in the past two years?"
"Zhu Ling'er?" Zhao Heng frowned when he heard this, and only replied after half a sound: "Xu I have been a deacon of this hall for a shallow time, and I have never heard of it, and my junior brother and this person ......."
The disappointment in Yuan Qing's eyes flashed away, and when he heard Zhao Heng ask rhetorically, he said with a calm look on his face: "This person has a lot of grudges with me. ”
Seeing Zhao Heng's expression flickering, Yuan Qing changed his words and said with a smile: "It's just a little personal grudge, not enough to worry about, but this task, senior brother has analyzed the benefits and disadvantages so far, Yuan Qing is naturally not a person who doesn't know what to do, I took this task." ”
After speaking, he took out the identity token, locked the Han family's task, and swept at the jade bi, and then a white jade cylinder slowly appeared in front of the jade bi.
As soon as he took it and pasted it on his forehead, a small word appeared in his mind, and the content was roughly the same as what was said on the jade bi, except that there was an extra sentence "Three days later, we will meet at Yanlai Peak".
Yuan Qing put away the token jade cylinder, bowed his hand to Zhao Heng and left.
Zhao Heng returned the salute with a smile on his face, and after Yuan Qing left, he took out a transmission note and whispered a few words on his lips, and the talisman turned into a flame and broke through the air.
At the same time, in a beautiful place in the Xuanyuan Gate, a middle-aged man was putting away his identity token, and suddenly saw a firelight breaking through the air, grabbing it with his empty hand, and the firelight turned into a talisman and fell into his palm.
With a shake of his hand, the talisman turned into a ball of fireball, and Zhao Heng's faint voice came from inside. After speaking, the fireball dissipated invisibly, and the man had a satisfied look on his face.
After Yuan Qing returned to Qingyuanju, he did not enter the secret room, but sat down cross-legged in the room, carefully recalling the details from the first day he met Li Yang to the present.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I remembered that when the next sect was in the big competition, a woman named Li Yu took the initiative to admit defeat when she saw Su Ziyi.
"The Li family, when it has a lot to do with the Su family," Yuan Qing muttered, "Could Li Yang be a member of the Li family?"
Then he frowned, "No, Senior Brother Xu made it clear that day, Li Yang and I went out of the same country, Senior Brother Xu has no reason to lie, that is Zhao Heng is lying." I have little contact with outsiders, and the only one who has a holiday is Su Ziyi's daughter, but Su Tianqi seems to be trying his best to be friendly with me, and his purpose should not be as simple as simply trying to resolve the feud, most likely because he knows that I defeated Su Yaze with one sword, and wants to invite me to the Su family as a guest, so that he can use it in the future. Thinking about it this way, there is no doubt that the old man Li in the Lingfu should be a member of the Li family, and most likely he transmitted Zhao Heng. Zhao Heng...... Zhao Feiyan: Could it be that Zhao Heng is a member of the Zhao family? So, Su, Li, Zhao, and Han are all together, why are they so interested in me?"
Yuan Qing couldn't help frowning more and more, and suddenly an overlooked detail appeared in his mind, "Senior Brother Lingdi is remote, and the spiritual veins are thin......"
"Wang Hao! He also has something to do with this matter! Su Tianqi, what does this person want to do?"
Yuan Qing thought of this, sighed lightly, and then got up and went out, looking at the lake and mountains, his brows gradually relaxed, summoned the broken water sword, gently stroked the sword body with his palm, and then slashed forward heavily, and suddenly the sword qi rushed into the sky, and the lake was divided into two.
"No matter what kind of conspiracy he is, he will be cut with a sword!"
Then he put away the water sword, turned around and entered the secret room, and sank into a steady place.
Three days later, on the top of a small hill on the east side of Xuanyuan, a person wearing a dark gold silk robe quietly looked at the sky, as if he was waiting for something.
A moment later, a middle-aged man dressed in blue brocade came from a piece of emerald green banana leaves, and after falling, he arched his hand and said, "But Senior Brother Feng?"
"In Xia Feng Xifeng, I have seen Senior Brother Han Dongxing. Feng Xifeng was still as cold as an iceberg, and bowed his hand in return.
Han Dongxing smiled slightly and asked, "Can Senior Brother Su explain this trip to you clearly?"
Feng Xifeng said in a deep voice: "Senior Brother Han, don't worry, since he is a guest of the Su family, he should do things for the young master wholeheartedly." ”
Han Dongxing nodded with satisfaction, and was about to say something more, only to hear a burst of Qingyue sword groaning, and then saw a little sword light from the sky from far to near, and fell in front of him in an instant.
The sword light dissipated, and a handsome young man in a plain robe appeared, it was Yuan Qing.
Yuan Qing glanced at Feng Xifeng, saw Feng Xifeng's calm face, and a different color flashed in his eyes, and then said to Han Dongxing: "But Senior Brother Han is in person?"
Han Dongxing carefully looked at the young man in front of him, and only felt that his body was full of sword qi, which was really extraordinary. Seeing his polite questioning, he replied: "Exactly." Presumably, Your Excellency is the junior brother of Yuan Qing. Let me introduce you to this ......."
"There is no need to introduce it, Senior Brother Feng and I are old acquaintances. Yuan Qing interrupted with a smile without waiting for him to finish speaking, and at the same time looked at Feng Xifeng.
Feng Xifeng saw that the two of them looked at him, so he just nodded slightly, which could be regarded as acquiescence.
Han Dongxing smiled and said, "Since it is an old acquaintance, it is much more convenient." As he spoke, he took out two jade cylinders and handed them to the two of them, "In the jade cylinder is the map of this trip and specific related matters, the two of you will be received when you arrive in Hanjiabao, and I still have important things to do, so I will take the first step." After speaking, he arched his hand towards the two of them, released the magic weapon and went into the air.
Yuan Qing took the jade tube, looked at Feng Xifeng after Shen Nian probed, and happened to look at the other side, and was about to speak, only to hear Feng Xifeng say: "Let's go." After speaking, he directly released a spirit boat and broke through the air.
Yuan Qing smiled helplessly, thinking: This Senior Brother Feng has not changed at all. Then he summoned the magic sword, and Edgeworth followed.
Pingdingfengfang City, Su Yuan, Su Tianqi took a transmission note, after the firelight dissipated, he poured himself a cup of tea and drank it leisurely, and then gently shook the folding fan, his eyes were full of smiles.