Chapter 8: The Loss of Buddha Relics
At ugly time (1 o'clock - 3 o'clock in the night), Zhou Chi's military camp was very quiet, after days of marching, the officers and soldiers were too tired, tonight they ate the delicacies sent from the city, Zhou Chi actually allowed the officers and soldiers to drink a bowl of wine each, and after that, everyone fell asleep. However, at this moment, two monks quietly infiltrated Zhou Chi's military camp. One of them, a tall yellow-faced monk in his forties, went straight to Zhou Chi's tent, and another black-faced monk who was less than thirty years old walked to the tent of the fourth prince, Zhou Huan.
There were two fallen soldiers at the door of Zhou Chi's tent, and they were snoring.
The yellow-faced monk avoided the soldiers, stretched out his iron arm and snapped the lock ring on the tent door, and then blew a mist through the crack in the door. After a while, the yellow-faced monk opened the door and entered the tent.
There was an oil lamp lit in Zhou Chi's tent, and the yellow-faced monk saw the relic treasure letter on the bookcase at a glance, and his heart was agitated.
The yellow-faced monk quickly calmed down, and then looked at Zhou Chi, who was lying on the bed with a mist of air, and walked towards the bookcase step by step. At the moment when the yellow-faced monk's hand reached for the relics treasure, a strong palm wind hit the back of the yellow-faced monk's head. The yellow-faced monk subconsciously withdrew his hand and dodged away, and turned around to see Zhou Chi, who was looking at him with a smile.
"It's a good means to be able to enter my big tent silently! There are not many people in the world who make me admire, you are one!" Zhou Chi said.
The yellow-faced monk said: "Om Ma Bang Mi Mi Woo Zhou Shi Master! The poor monk has no intention of harming him, and the mist blown into it will only make people temporarily unconscious, and he does not want Zhou Shi Zhu's skill to be so profound, and the poor monk is here just to invite the Buddha's relics to return to the Buddha to avoid the difficulties of the worldly war." ”
Zhou Chi said: "Buddhism and lay people have the same Buddha, and the monks are people outside the Xurui Dynasty, right?
The yellow-faced monk said: "Lord Zhou! Xurui Dynasty sincerely serves the Buddha, and is also sincere to the prosperity of the dynasty. Boom!"
Zhou Chi said: "Okay! I'll verify whether the monk has the power to protect the Buddha's relics." If the monk can catch my three consecutive attacks without falling, this Buddha relic monk can be invited back. ”
The yellow-faced monk said: "Master Zhou, after three palms, if I take ten steps back, the poor monk will not dare to invite back the Buddha relics.
Zhou Chi had left room for his previous words, and he could connect his three palms without falling, which could only be done by a person with the high-level strength of the Zhongwu Sect, and this kind of force was close to the force of the seven army commanders at the top of the three million armies of the powerful Xurui Dynasty, and it was impossible for a foreign monk to have this strength, if the three palms only took ten steps back, the force was close to him Zhou Chi - Zhou Chi was confident that only the emperor Zhou Tian's strength in the world was one level higher than him, and Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, was slightly better than him, and then there was no one who could defeat him. Now after listening to the arrogant words of the yellow-faced monk, he said without thinking: "If the monk is within ten steps after the three palms, the relics treasure letter is the monk's, and I promise to send the monk out of the Xurui Dynasty safely; I'm willing to give you a high-five and swear a poisonous oath!"
Zhou Chi's first palm used eighty percent of his strength, and the four palms struck, and the yellow-faced monk's body shook a few times, and he didn't take a step back.
Zhou Chi immediately took a few steps back, and the second palm emitted ninety percent of his power, and the four palms collided, and the white-faced monk took three steps back.
The fourth palm hit for the third time, Zhou Chi had already used ten percent of his strength, and the yellow-faced monk was shocked to retreat six steps in a row, and his heart was surging with qi and blood, but he still stood still.
The yellow-faced monk stabilized his body and said slowly: "Om, what a fool, the poor monk is really lucky! Can the poor monk please take away the Buddha's relics?"
Zhou Chi stood like a wood carving clay sculpture, and the tall yellow-faced monk in front of him stood still, connecting his three palms in the running state, and he only took ten steps back to stand firm, which was a fact that he couldn't accept.
Zhou Chi came back to his senses after a while and said: "Monk, you can please leave the Buddha relics, this is my tiger head token, give it to you, with it, you can be unimpeded in the situation of the Xurui Dynasty." ”
The yellow-faced monk hurriedly saluted and thanked Zhou Chi, and then kowtowed step by step to the Buddha's relics treasure letter.
Zhou Chi saw the yellow-faced monk holding the relic treasure letter and walked out of the big tent step by step, and after the yellow-faced monk disappeared, Zhou Chi suddenly jumped up and rushed out of the big tent.
At the moment when Zhou Chi came out of the big tent to chase the yellow-faced monk, a black shadow rushed into the big tent from behind Zhou Chi like lightning.
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Another skinny black-faced monk who came with the yellow-faced monk came to the outside of the tent of the fourth prince Zhou Huan, and also blew mist into the tent, and after a while opened the tent door.
Eight people fell asleep in the tent of the fourth prince, Zhou Huan, Shi Dewa, and six of the sons of the Seven Kings—missing Feng Rui, the son of the King of Nanling. By the faint light of the oil lamps that were about to burn out in the tent, the black-faced monk saw eight people sleeping in different shapes, and then looked around again.
The black-faced monk quietly approached the bed of the eight, and leaned down to look under the bed, as if looking for something.
After searching for a while, the black-faced monk turned and left the tent.
The black-faced monk came out of the camp tent, looked at Zhou Chi's tent, and saw that it was quiet, so he wanted to leave the barracks.
"Your Excellency, go slowly! How can you come and go in and out of this military camp so casually!" the fourth prince, Zhou Huan, shouted.
Zhou Huan said as he jumped up and punched the black-faced monk in the back of the head.
The black-faced monk dodged Zhou Huan's punch and hurriedly turned his body, at this time, Zhou Huan's second punch had already hit, and the black-faced monk shook Zhou Huan back three or four steps with one palm, and his body shook slightly twice. Seeing this, Shi Dewa next to him rushed forward and hit the black-faced monk with a punch, and the black-faced monk collided with Shi Dewa's palm fist, and Shi Dewa was shocked back two or three steps.
Zhou Huan and Shi Dewa joined forces to fight with the black-faced monk in the open space outside the tent.
From the great chivalrous martial arts when they entered the Imperial Martial Academy, through three martial arts levels and three martial arts levels, in the past four years, Zhou Dewa and the others leaped seven levels to the threshold of the highest level of martial arts and became a small martial arts sect. Although they are still far from the strength of the Great Martial Sect Realm like Zhou Chi, for the two young people who are almost twenty years old, they have undoubtedly created miracles, and they can already be regarded as first-class masters.
Now in the face of a strong enemy, Zhou Harrier and the two of them together used the best boxing method of the Zhou family to kill the tiger, each punch they hit is not only exquisite, but also each punch is fused with three years of internal force, the power of that punch is enough to deter any martial arts master.
The black-faced monk was calm and calm under the attack of the extremely powerful Zhou Dewa and the two, and he always used his palms to punch, or shocked the two of them, or attacked the vital parts of the two to make the two of them retreat and naturally retreat.
The three of them fought for more than a dozen moves, and the black-faced monk did not fall behind. He had no intention of fighting, and suddenly he shot his palms together on the unexpected line of the two of them, forcing them back, and then tiptoe to the ground, several jumps, and the black-faced monk was already standing twenty meters away from the south.
Zhou Huanshi Dewa and the others were about to catch up, and one of them quickly jumped in front of Zhou Dewa and the others. The two were just about to make a move, but the man hurriedly said, "Fourth Prince, Shi Dewa, I'm Feng Rui, come with me to arrest someone, he may have stolen something that Zhou is in charge of." ”
Feng Rui took Zhou Dewa and the others and ran towards the north of the barracks.
The barracks were quiet, and after two fights, the barracks was still quiet.
Zhou Dewa Feng and the three of them walked out of the north gate of the barracks and rushed along the avenue in the direction of Yingyang City.
After chasing for a while, the three of them noticed that a figure appeared in front of them.
Feng Rui said: "Fourth Prince! This is the person, let's catch him up and capture him." ”
Among the three, the fourth prince Zhou Huan had the best light skills, and he swept his body and took the lead in crossing in front of the person, and the two Harrier Feng also followed closely and flew over, surrounding the person in the middle.
The man was masked, and when he saw the three of them, he didn't ask questions, and punched Shidewa, trying to escape.
Shi Dewa was afraid that the man would escape, so he did not dodge, and used his trick "Iron Shoulder", and the man punched Shi Dewa in the shoulder, Shi Dewa was beaten down and retreated a few steps, and the man was also shocked to take a step back. Zhou Feng and the others had already punched and attacked when the man hit Shi Dewa, and the man was shocked by Shi Dewa and took a step back, and the inertia made him unable to dodge the attack of Zhou Feng and the others, Zhou Huan's punch hit the man's shoulder, and Feng Rui's punch hit the man's lower back.
Zhou Huan's punch had a round force, even the Great Martial Sect Zhou Chi didn't dare to use his body to take this punch, and that person was still hit by this punch without preparation and no internal force resistance, coupled with the punch that Feng Rui, whose force had reached the peak of the Great Martial Arts, hit him on the waist, he was seriously injured on the spot, and it was difficult to escape with light skills.
Shi Dewa, who was shaken back, was extremely angry, and in less than half an hour, he was at a disadvantage in the fight with the two, which turned him into an angry little tiger.
Shi Dewa screamed and pounced on the man, the punch he hit used desperate strength, this punch was also the power of the circle after the fusion of internal and external strength, and its power was still above the four princes.
After the man was injured, he couldn't dodge Shi Dewa's punch, so he could only resist desperately, and Shi Dewa was shocked back two more steps, and the man was shocked back a few steps before falling to the ground, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.
The three of them stepped forward and pressed the man, who suddenly shouted: "Fourth prince! Let go! I'm Xu Rong—"
Zhou Huan took off the man's mask, and what the three of them saw through the moonlight was the brother of Xu Zheng, the king of Xianghu, who came to the capital with Zhou Chi and his party.
Feng Rui looked at the Fourth Prince, Zhou Huan, and said, "Fourth Prince, you and Shi Dewa will take Master Xu back to the military camp and hand it over to Zhou Zhizhi, I will go to Yingyang City and return to the military camp immediately." ”
Feng Rui turned around and left after speaking, and when he returned to the barracks from Yingyang City with a fat man in his forties, it was already dawn.
After Feng Rui called the doorman to report, he walked into Zhou Chi's big tent. On the ground in the tent were kneeling Xu Rong, the commander of the imperial guard camp and more than a dozen people, Zhou Chi stood angrily in front of the overturned bookcase, and behind him were the four princes Zhou Huan and Shi Dewa, who were standing with their hands down.
"If you can't find what you lost, you all have to die!" Zhou Chi said angrily.
After Zhou Chi finished speaking, he saw Feng Rui coming in, and he actually stepped forward and grabbed Feng Rui's hand and said, "Feng Rui! Zhou Huan said that you saw Xu Rong steal something from me, what's the matter?"
Feng Rui said: "Lord in charge, when you went to chase the monk who ran out of your tent, I saw Lord Xu stealing into your tent, and I suspect that Lord Xu took something from you." ”
Xu Rong, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly defended when he heard this: "Lord Dianshuai! I have been in Yingyang City last night, how can I enter your big tent? Feng Rui must have seen the wrong person. ”
Zhou Chi asked Feng Rui and said, "Did you see Xu Rong enter my big tent with your own eyes?"
"Yes. Zhou is in charge, I have been following Lord Xu from Yingyang City to the barracks, and I saw him enter your big tent with my own eyes. Feng Rui said.
The fourth prince, Zhou Huan, said: "Uncle! Feng Rui was indeed out last night. ”
Zhou Chi turned his face and glared at Xu Rong angrily and said, "If you don't tell the truth again, I will kill you immediately!"
Xu Rong knelt down and climbed two steps and said, "Lord Dianshuai! Little wronged——, I found two singers in the private room of Cuihong Mansion last night, and the people in Cuihong Mansion can testify for me." Maybe I was too excited, in the second half of the night, I couldn't sleep and went out of the city for a walk, afraid that people would recognize me, I also wore a mask, I didn't want to meet the four princes, I didn't see clearly when it was dark, and I started to fight, it was all a misunderstanding!"
Feng Rui said: "Zhou is in charge! I have been following Lord Zhou last night, he looked for a singer in the private room of the Cuihong Mansion at night, and then found another person to be with those two singers. And he himself left Yingyang City to lurk outside the barracks, and later followed the two people who stole into the barracks into the barracks, and entered your big tent while you were out of the tent. ”
"Stinky boy, you dare to follow me!" Xu Rong jumped up from the ground angrily, trying to hit Feng Rui's back, but he was seriously injured and fell to the ground after jumping halfway.
Zhou Chi scolded angrily: "Are you going to fucking kill people?"
Xu Rong knelt on the ground and kowtowed incessantly and said: "This kid is spewing blood, I am a first-class military attache of the Xurui Dynasty, I am loyal to the dynasty, he dares to follow me, and the palace marshal is the master of me!"
Feng Rui said: "Zhou is in charge! I have a testimony that the person who was with the singer of the Cuihong Mansion arranged by Lord Xu last night was outside the tent door. ”
As soon as the fat man in his forties entered the big tent, he was late
Pointing to his nose and saying: "The emperor of the Xurui Dynasty is my cousin, I am escorting valuables for the emperor this time, this item was lost last night, it has something to do with you, if you don't tell the truth, I will destroy you immediately!"
After hearing this, the fat man was so frightened that he fell to his knees, kowtowed like a chicken pecking rice, and cried and said, "My lord! I haven't done anything! I have been with the two singers in the Cuihong Mansion last night. That's right, this is the person - the fat man pointed to Xu Rong - said that he spent 2,000 silver to find two high-class singers, but the family sent a letter that the old mother was critically ill and he wanted to go home, so the two singers gave me free enjoyment. I was also looking for a singer, so I happily accepted. Before dawn, this boy grabbed me and came here. Where am I stealing?"
Zhou Chi laughed a few times, then grabbed Xu Rong's collar and lowered his voice and said: "Xu Rong! You are too high--clear! Hand over the stolen things——, I will only kill you, otherwise your wife, children, and family will not be able to live, and even your most respected brother, King Xiang'e, will be implicated!"
Xu Rong took out the three Buddha relics that Zhou Chi hid on his body every day from his shirt, Zhou Chi snatched them and looked at them repeatedly for a while, and after confirming that they were correct, he let out a sigh of relief.