Chapter 12: Crystal

"Blue crystal, is it the kind of stone that can increase people's strength and increase their cultivation speed?"

"Exactly. ”

Even with Master Ye's concentration, after hearing the three words blue crystal, he couldn't control the sudden waves in his heart.

Since ancient times, countless martial arts practitioners have looked forward to reaching the highest level of martial arts, the Heavenly Master. This is also the realm that all martial artists have spent their lives studying. However, countless martial idiots have tried their best, and perhaps in the end, they can't even touch the heels of the Heavenly Master, and even very few can reach the Grandmaster level. In this case, with the help of a certain external force, it has become an indispensable link, and the effect that the pill can achieve is very limited.

Legend has it that when chaos opened up and heaven and earth first opened, along with the arrival of all living beings in the world, in addition to mountains, rivers and lakes, the sea and stars, there is also a very special ore body, which is called crystal stone. According to different colors, crystal stones can be divided into a total of eighteen kinds from high to bottom, each crystal stone contains the energy essence between heaven and earth, with different effects of shaping the meridians of the human body, improving human bones, and even resurrecting the dead, but the most irresistible thing is that these crystal stones can make martial artists with extremely poor roots and bones can also practice as fast as people with extremely high talents, and even reach the situation of thousands of miles in a day. Legend has it that the Heavenly Master-level supreme powerhouses of those distant times have more or less formed an indissoluble bond with this stone in the process of cultivation, and until now the crystal stone can still make any martial artist forget to die for it. It is said that the current martial arts alliance leader is already carrying three crystal stones.

Master Ye still remembers very clearly that when he was young, the Central Plains Martial Arts had ignited two martial arts wars one after another, and the source of these two wars was precisely because of the competition for this crystal stone. Those bloody and brutal images of rivers of blood are still vivid in his mind.

"Could it be that the tribute for this escort is a blue crystal. Past experiences reminded him that those ominous things might be coming back.

"It's sapphire. Han Ya nodded, "About a month and a half ago, our Heavenly Star Gang and Nine Doors received a secret order from the Dutong Mansion of the Jinan Daimyo Mansion, and the stewards of our two major gangs who could have the final say were invited to participate in this secret meeting, and it was me and my uncle and several elders in the gang who went to Jinan. The nine doors were taken by their master Yuan Wuzhi with the hall master at the entrance of the nine halls. ”

"Wait, you said that Yuan Wuzhi took the hall master at the entrance of the Nine Great Halls," Master Ye suddenly felt that something was wrong, "But when I was in the restaurant that day, I looked at you like I had seen Song Gang and those people for the first time." ”

"That's true, and I was a little puzzled at first. I only heard the name Song Gang mentioned it a month ago, and recently the nine doors have secretly undergone a big purge, and all the hall masters have basically been replaced by new people, this Song Gang used to seem to be the deputy of the former six hall masters, and then he was promoted to the hall master somehow, including the second hall master we saw that day. Since that trip to Jinan, I feel that everything has become wrong. ”

"I see, go on. ”

Han Ya continued, "At that time, in addition to the Fu Yin of the Daimyo Mansion, the garrison commander of Jinan, the head of the military camp, and finally even the general Zhenxi of the border pass came, except for General Zhenxi's cronies and a small number of trusted people, the rest of the people were waiting outside, and the atmosphere of the whole meeting was very tense. ”

"It seems that they are quite serious about this rally, and they have even dispatched the generals stationed in the border, and I think this should also be a rally around the blue crystal. ”

"Not bad at all. Han Ya gave a thumbs up to Master Ye with admiration. "The story is roughly like this, three months ago, General Zhenxi occasionally seized a batch of treasures in the process of encircling and suppressing border bandits, according to him, among these treasures there is a gem that can emit blue light uninterruptedly whether it is day or night, originally General Zhenxi thought it was just an ordinary night pearl, and then after many researches, it was determined that this is a genuine crystal stone. ”

"If that's the case, then it's really a big bargain, and such a treasure can be picked up like this. The two of them talked as they walked, and as they walked, they had come to the depths of a fruit forest, and suddenly a burst of fire surged up Master Ye's throat, and he sucked a few ripe fruits from the tree and put them in his hand and gnawed them.

"Who's to say no, it's something that doesn't necessarily happen once in a lifetime, and we were very surprised. General Zhenxi immediately informed the capital of the news at that time, and mixed this piece of blue crystal into all the tributes on the grounds that the concubine was having a birthday. General Zhenxi originally wanted to personally lead the army to escort this trip, but since the capture of this stone, there have been several large-scale thieves who have attacked the border city in order to seize this blue crystal, and finally decided to find friends in the rivers and lakes to do this business in order to hide people's eyes. Shandong is a place they must pass through, and after thinking about it, they finally find the Nine Gates and the Celestial Star Gang. Originally, these two gangs were also born in darts, and they all ate pressed food. ”

"So that's what happened. ”

"For the sake of safety, General Zhenxi specially put this sapphire crystal in a secret iron box, and the key to the iron box was divided into four parts, and these four parts were divided into two parts, which were handed over to the Celestial Star Gang and the Nine Doors for safekeeping. General Zhenxi originally planned to escort this Blue Crystal station one last time, but because of his busy border business, he soon returned to the border again. Before leaving, he directly paid each of our two families 5,000 taels of gold, saying that he would thank him again after the matter was completed. And I entrust that two months later, a few days before the concubine's birthday, someone will come to pick up this blue crystal, and we just need to keep this batch of goods in these three months. Then this batch of goods was handed over to us and the hands of the nine doors, at that time we said that the good is to keep this batch of goods together, the day before leaving Yuan Wuzhi was very warm to entertain us, the next day we made an appointment to go back to Tai'an together, it was really careless. And the ballasted cargo was sent back by the remaining brother of Tangkou and the remaining men of the nine doors. ”

"I guess something happened on the way back. Master Ye seems to have sensed the follow-up.

"Yes, on the way back, the people of the Nine Doors suddenly used a secret hand, killed all our brothers in the main hall, and also robbed the goods, but these poor brothers were confused and did the ghosts, just like they did to my father-in-law. An undisguised resentment appeared on Han Ya's pretty face, and she remembered Han Fei's unwillingness and remorse before he died, "If they can take this credit alone at that time, it will be equivalent to currying favor with the royal family, and if they can get the support of the royal family, they will surely be able to dominate the Tai'an area in the future." Han Ya said as she also picked a wild fruit and put it into her lips, she also needed to lower the fire now.

"It's really a brute, why didn't you tell General Zhenxi about it afterwards. ”

"I thought so at the time, but was stopped by my uncle, who said that if we inform General Zhenxi of this matter now, maybe General Zhenxi will complain that we are not doing well, and it is possible that he will directly hand over the escort rights of this batch of goods to Jiumen, at this time, no one will care about who is right and wrong in this matter, General Zhenxi now has only one purpose, that is, to send the blue crystal back to the capital safely, as for who did it, he doesn't care. Yuan Wuzhi seems to have figured this out. Taking a step back, if the Blue Crystal really has something going on with us, if the royal family blames us, it may be possible to behead us all over the house, and at worst, the entire Celestial Star Gang may not be able to get out of it. ”

"That makes sense. One of the keys must be in your hand right now, so the people of Nine Doors are trying to catch you in every possible way now. ”

"That's it, the things in the gang have always been handled by my uncle alone, although I don't have real power, but after all, I am the daughter of my father-in-law, and on the surface I am still half of the family members in the gang, so General Zhenxi gave me one of the four keys, the other key is in my uncle's hand, and the other two are handed over to Yuan Wuzhi and the master of the Nine Doors Hall. Even Nine Gates didn't dare to do anything to my uncle, so they found me first. ”

"What if they can't get the keys when the deadline comes, and obediently deliver the sapphire to the delivery person with you?"

"Even Yuan Wuzhi doesn't dare to offend the royal family, if they can't collect four keys within half a month, they can only hand over the blue crystal, the key, and the tribute, so that even if our mission is completed, of course, the credit is still half of the family. My father-in-law must have died tragically in their hands back then, and today I must not watch them continue to do whatever they want in this Tai'an area, otherwise the people of Taishan will be even more sad in the future. ”

"Han Yatou's morality is very good, but she is still a little selfish. ”

"Alas, it's really useless to be cautious in front of you," Han Ya had to smile bitterly again and again, even if she was as smart as her, in front of this old man, all the little cleverness would be completely useless, "Of course, if we can successfully take away this batch of goods, it will naturally be of great benefit to the Celestial Star Gang." ”

"But they finally robbed the goods once, injured so many people, and spent so much time and so much work, they will definitely not give up easily. ”

"So......" Han Ya suddenly bent her knees, still kneeling in front of Master Ye.

"What are you doing, girl, get up quickly. Master Ye frowned, and wanted to pull her as he spoke.

"Even if it's not for Xiaoya, for the sake of the dozens of people in the Han family, and the thousands of people in the Tianxing Gang, please help Xiaoya this time. As long as you and Brother Mu are willing to help the little sister this time, the little sister is willing to do anything to repay you, even if you call me ......" It is not easy to ask a daughter's family to say such things, even if she feels ashamed in her heart, but Han Ya still bit her lip, and it can be seen from her eyebrows that what she said is not a joke.

"Han Ya's words are serious," Master Ye waved his wrinkled palm, and a soft but strong wind then lifted Han Ya up, "I'm almost in the coffin, but that kid may be tempted." The old man is already an outsider, and he has long been distracted from fame and fortune, and he has long been distracted from the grievances in the world, and he just wants to spend the rest of his life in peace and stability. ”

Without waiting for Han Ya to pray again, he continued, "But I don't care what the stupid boy wants to do, whatever he wants to do is his own freedom, I, the master, will not come forward openly, but I will always support him behind him, and he also needs to be independent." The past few years have been too dull, so I just took this opportunity to ask him to have a good experience. "Master Ye's meaning is already obvious, he supports Mu Li's own choice, but he will not make a move openly, but he will secretly help when necessary.

Han Ya suddenly felt that her eyes were hot, as if a stream of water vapor was about to rush into her eyes, but she still couldn't help but press the water droplets back again, even though she was a girl, she was also very strong in her bones. Although she didn't shed tears, she was still willing to sacrifice her knees, and she wanted to kneel down again to thank Master Ye, but she was still held up by his gust of wind.

Master Ye didn't say anything more, a kind smile like an ordinary old man appeared on his old face, he looked towards the top of Mount Tai in the distance, looking at this infinitely beautiful river and mountain, the depression in his heart also dissolved with this gust of breeze.