Chapter 45: The Ghost Lingers
"Oh?" Yi Shaocheng didn't expect this to happen, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly agreed.
It's just that more than ten years have passed, and those old brothers back then are not easy to find, some have returned to the field, some have entered the court as officials, some have been in power in the army, and some have become swordsmen and swordsmen, taking people's money and money everywhere to eliminate disasters for others, and some have been very depressed in China and Japan, and some have even died for many years.
Yi Shaocheng is the identity of Snapdragon, not a real Snapdragon, I don't know these people, but Xiang Zhong knows.
And Xiang Zhong only has one person, and it takes a long time to gather these people, and it took a long time for Mr. Zero to barely gather twenty people.
The one who has the best relationship with Xiang Zhong is a one-armed swordsman named Gan Chen.
Like Xiang Chong, he was the left and right lieutenant generals of Snapdragon in the past, but in the war, one blinded his left eye with a bow and the other broke his right arm with a knife, and both of them had a hard time.
While Xiang Zhong was in contact with this group of people, Yi Shaocheng did not stop. Instead, for three consecutive nights, with some mercury refining pills, the nine fire heavenly centipedes in the body that were extremely poisonous were refined, and the thunder and lightning heart method went one layer further, and soon reached the sixth heaven, and even the breath seemed to contain a breath of thunder and lightning, which showed that the thunder and lightning heart method was still one step away from the final Great Perfection.
The fire poison scar on Yi Shaocheng's face, molting his heart, gradually got better, but he gave people the feeling that in addition to being heroic and extraordinary, there was also a sword-like anger in his eyes. If you don't restrain it, you will look like a ruthless horn born from death.
Soon after, the team of twenty-one people set out.
Horses are the best horses, equipped with the best dry food, and although they are few in number, all the conditions are exceptional.
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"What?"
Luoyang Xu Mansion, Xu Sheng, who learned that Snapdragon had sent an envoy to the Dian Kingdom, was full of shock: "Your Majesty is really confused, how can you let him go?!" Xu Sheng lowered his voice and vented his dissatisfaction.
During this period of time, every step he has taken has not been smooth, his troops to the Dian Kingdom have been blocked, the third son Xu Meng was killed and Xiaolong is still at large, and his subordinate Zhao Songming has encountered such a thing when he sent an envoy to the Dian Kingdom, and even that Xu Tianqiu is still dead!
Everything made him anxious and helpless. People sometimes carry it like this, and they can stuff their teeth when they drink water, and when this series of things came out, Xu Sheng only felt that his status was decreasing in the emperor's mind, and he even had the idea of returning to his hometown for a while.
Now, when he heard this, his heart felt like it was burning with fire.
What you haven't done is for your majesty to let Snapdragon do it, this is your sworn enemy...... This is enough to prove His Majesty's intentions...... No longer rely on him.
"Someone!" As soon as he thought of this, Xu Sheng shouted.
"Boom...... What do you command, Lord Xu?" a cold voice appeared in the room as soon as Xu Sheng's words fell.
Xu Sheng was stunned, suppressed his anger a little, and said with a cold face: "There is something you need to do." ”
"It's about the Snapdragon, right?"
This person has a gloomy face, a black coat, and an antique bronze armor on his back, which looks quite weird, it is none other than the nine-headed corpse vulture, and he doesn't think highly of Xu Sheng.
"There were two chances, the first time we failed, but this time we must not allow failure. ”
"What do you mean...... Let's put it bluntly. ”
"The most important thing in this trip is not Your Majesty's so-called request for an explanation to investigate the cause of death of the two envoys, but ...... Tomb of the Gods. ”
The nine-headed corpse vulture was stunned, and his originally cold and playful eyes immediately stopped, looking at Xu Sheng intently.
Up to now, Xu Sheng is not afraid to tell the original top-secret matter, after all, there are only these nine corpse vultures around him now.
"Brother, you go on. ”
Xu Sheng had no choice but to put out the disc of this incident.
"There is a martial soul hidden in the ancient tomb of the gods, but the place where it is engraved on the key, determined to be in the territory of the Dian Kingdom, the emperor Lao'er gave up the twenty percent of the commercial tax that originally made him angry, and sent people to the name of the queen mother's birthday to collect snow cashmere and find the key. ”
"What about the key?"
"As you can see, even your little uncle Xu Tianqiu and my deputy general Song Ming are dead, and there is not a single one left alive, but I have a feeling. ”
"You mean...... The Dian Kingdom also knows about it, so it kills people and kills them?"
"Yes. Li Shui in the court was really bad, and he actually asked His Majesty to tell Snapdragon and let him go out with the elite to explore the key under the pretense of investigation. ”
"You mean, let me shoot after the Snapdragon gets the key? But the Snapdragon has been walking for a long time, and I don't know the route of travel, so how can I find it?"
Xu Sheng stopped pacing and looked at the nine-headed corpse vulture, and said in a low tone: "Snapdragon carries twenty people, and there are also my people among these twenty people, I know his every move, I will hand them over to you, and then you will be able to clearly know his every move." There are only two things you have to do, find the key and slash the Snapdragon alive!"
In the end, as soon as the four words "live Snapdragon" came out, Xu Sheng's whole body exuded a strong killing intent, and the nine-headed corpse vulture looked gloomy and smiled.
"My pot is for him. ”
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In the near future, the first year of another year, the whole country of Dian has also been busy.
Compared with the Han Dynasty, the atmosphere of the New Year in the Dian Kingdom is stronger, and the exceptions are very lively, especially at the end of the year, there is always a competition to celebrate the whole country.
Martial arts prevail here, and people need strong vitality to survive in an environment that is not wealthy. People believe that to protect themselves, protect their homeland, and live a good life, they must have strong force.
Only with strong force can the land under their protection develop more prosperously and allow their children and grandchildren to thrive.
Every year, the competition has become the most important thing in the entire Dian Kingdom.
This year is different from previous years, and the five-year Atai selection competition is more lively and interesting. In the face of the supreme glory of the word "Atai", the young warriors of the entire Dian Kingdom flocked to it.
Today is the beginning of the official competition, and it is also the real first battle of the 100 finalists.
Boundless's cultivation is already excellent, and it is deeply hidden, coupled with Duo Jiao's explanation of the thunder and lightning heart method for him, his progress is very fast. Another is that the five masters of Shaoli are not idle people, and they attach great importance to the embodiment of all the abilities of Wuya in actual combat, so they have specially trained them.
In addition, there is such a master as Xiyun by his side, and when he is in a good mood, he will also give him some pointers, and many of his occlusions in cultivation will be easily solved.
The conditions that Wuya has now, in some respects, are slightly better than the prince Shaocheng, at least much better than his master Yi Shaocheng back then.
In the past, Yi Shaocheng was only an outer disciple, because of his high talent, he was instructed not long after he got started. With this, Yi Shaocheng entered the realm of the grandmaster, and later got the treasure of the snapdragon by chance, so he was proud to give birth to a lotus step by step, and became the king in just six years.
The higher this cultivation goes, the more difficult it becomes.
It didn't take long for Wuya to be promoted from a fifth-grade grandmaster to a first-grade.
But it took a long time to be promoted from a product to the current half-step king realm.
In the Atai Top 100 Competition, Wuya did not spend much strength with his bare hands, and knocked down the top 100 candidates with just one punch.
Next, all the way forward, smoothly into the top twelve.
This top 100 competition is already exciting, the more fierce and explosive it gets, and everyone spares no effort to break out the strongest combat power.
The audience was full of people watching the battle, and the sound of cheering was like thunder, and the blood of the people was boiling.
Inside and outside the city, restaurants and teahouses, there are discussions everywhere about who can enter the top 12 and who can finally win the championship.
The busiest place is the gambling house.
Every time the Atai selection is the top priority of the casino, many casinos will join forces to hold a pressure bet. Now all the topics are focused on three people, these three people are paulownia wood, less separation, no end.
People are betting and discussing the background of the players.
"And who is this paulownia handi?" someone in the crowd asked, and the atmosphere around him was cold at first, and then immediately burst into laughter.
"It must be a stranger who asks this. The gambler who explained everyone's background laughed.
"It's just that I don't even know about the paulownia cloth. There was a sigh in the gambling house.
Subsequently, everyone talked about the paulownia wood silk, and then talked about Shaoli and Wuyi.
There is a man in a black robe and cloak while drinking, listening quietly over and over again, whenever he hears someone mention Wuyan, his eyes will suddenly light up, and a faint smile will appear on his face, as if he is some kind of satisfaction and relief, this person is the Snapdragon Zhonglang General from the big Han.
After a long time, Yi Shaocheng couldn't get more information, so he put on a black hood and walked back into the dark alleys in the slums of Yongyuan City.
And not far behind him, two equally disguised swordsmen, followed all the way.
"Hmph, it seems that the nine-headed vulture is also here, we can't wait any longer!"
Yi Shaocheng's eyes were cold, his figure flashed, and he suddenly disappeared under the cover of a dead tree.
"Ran!"
The two swordsmen looked at each other before scattering.
Half a moment later, the two swordsmen came to the underground of the green tile house in the slum, the sound of the water was intermittent, it turned out to be an abandoned and dilapidated building, close to the drainage channel of Yongyuan City, and at this time there was a hoarse voice of the nine-headed corpse vulture.
"I've found out that the Heavenly Fruit is hidden in the hands of the palace duojiao, it's time for you to go out! When it's done, I'm going to dismantle the bones of the Snapdragon, boil the soup and cook the meat, and you all have a share!"
Another voice said: "I'm not interested in Snapdragon, I'm only interested in the Divine Martial Tomb, by the way, I want this little Nizi." ”
"Hehe, Yaxing, Yaxing, brother, you have been in the tomb for so long, but you haven't forgotten this blissful thing on earth!"
"Jie Ji ......"
Yi Shaocheng had already secretly followed the two swordsmen to the vicinity of the nine-headed corpse vulture's lair, and naturally when he heard this conversation, his killing intent suddenly appeared. But in the end, he calmed down and retreated silently.