Chapter 20: The Sword Sutra is Stolen
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"Alas, it's okay, it's okay, thanks to those heroes just now!" the old grandson patted the dust on his body and said, "Since it's okay, let's go quickly, the province has a lot of dreams at night." ā
'Yes, yes, let's go. The merchants cautiously bypassed the pit in front of them, and no one dared to look into it, lest another poisonous person would jump out of it. The merchants continued to rush to Yucheng.
Xiang Jiuchen and the other six people heard someone shouting for help, so they led the intelligence disciples to rush here. By the time they arrived, everything that had happened had gone away, and the only thing that stood out was a small footprint in the crater on the ground, and the earth burned to ashes by the blood of poisonous people. Xiang Jiuchen thought, could it be that someone is angry with that poisonous man?
'Senior Brother Jiuchen, you see, there are footprints on this hillside. Xiang Jiuchen followed the direction of the disciple's finger, looked at the hillside, and there were really more than a dozen footprints, and said to Jiuchen, "This footprint, every ten meters, there should be a master of light skills, going up from the hillside!"
Xiang Jiuchen thought for a while and said, "It is estimated that the cult criminals controlled the poisonous people, climbed the hillside and escaped, this footprint is still new, let's chase it!"
When the intelligence disciples heard the order, they and Xiang Jiuchen, a total of six people, made their efforts to reach the top of the mountain in just a few steps. I saw that on this hillside, there were dozens of footprints alone, and there were traces of a sedan chair in the middle. Looking in the direction of departure, they should have walked due north.
Xiang Jiuchen glanced at the sky, at this time the sun had already set halfway, if he went to investigate at this time, it was very likely to be ambushed, if he didn't chase at this time, he didn't know when there would be a clue! Xiang Jiuchen was definitely reluctant to give up the current clues, but also to avenge his serious injury half a year ago! Xiang Jiuchen said to the disciples beside him, "I hope I can find their nest this time, there are obvious traces of the sedan chair in the imprint just now, and they will definitely not be able to run far with the sedan chair!" As soon as the words were spoken, Xiang Jiuchen led the disciples to follow the footsteps and chase north.
'Sun Ming is far victorious!' A gong and drum sounded, and the head of the Fuhu Dao stood in the center of the cloud platform and shouted, and the audience shouted again. Sun Mingyuan and Xie Hongzhi bowed deeply to each other, exchanged a few words of greeting, and walked off the stage.
Daoist Fuhu stood in Taichung and said, "Today's preliminary examination will be announced, and the disciples who have successfully advanced are Ming Hao, Xiang Bai, Xu Tianhe, Shen Canghai, Yue Qi and Sun Mingyuan. Today's hour is not early, I hope everyone will rest early, and the semi-finals will be held tomorrow afternoon, I hope the disciples will achieve good results. ā
The disciples in the audience dispersed one after another, and Canghai, Yue Qi, and Xiao Teng ran towards the gang room like hungry wolves. On the one hand, the competition consumes physical strength, and on the other hand, it consumes internal strength, and with the simultaneous consumption of both, it is normal for the stomach to inevitably produce emptiness. Therefore, the master of the house should be asked by the head of Xiaoyaozi to add meals to supplement the nutrition of the contestants.
At this time, Canghai, Yue Qi, and Xiao Teng came to the room, walked behind the disciples and were queuing up to eat, and the master of the room beckoned them to come and eat when they saw Canghai and Yue Qi coming. The previous disciples had all seen Canghai and Yue Qi's martial arts today, so they also gave in, hoping that they could defeat the Qi Sect and bring honor to the Sword Sect.
In the face of the humility and praise of the disciples, Yue Qi and the others were embarrassed to refuse. Canghai embarrassedly touched his head and thanked them one by one, while Yue Qi walked to the front row with a big grin to start eating.
Not to mention, Xiaoyaozi gave an order, and the master really added the meal, Yue Qi Canghai and other contestants each had two more eggs, and the meal was a few more than usual, and the amount was more than doubled.
Canghai was carrying twice as many wild vegetables from the mountains as usual, and when he was disappointed, he whispered, "I thought I could have meat to eat."
Yue Qi walked in front of Canghai and heard Canghai complaining, he immediately turned around and swept Canghai with a white eye, and whispered to Canghai, "If you don't want to be beaten, don't mention meat!"
Canghai received a roll of Yue Qi's eyes, his body trembled for a while, and he followed Yue Qi to find a seat where no one was and sat down, waiting for Xiao Teng to finish eating before eating together.
I saw that Xiao Teng finally had his turn after lining up for a while, and the master of the room served Xiao Teng food as before, Xiao Teng saw that the master of the room still ignored himself as before, and he did not respect him at all as if he saw Canghai and Yue Qi, and he suddenly became angry. He knew that he didn't have the ability to make waves in this Qingcheng Mountain now, let alone a prominent family background to let him squander freely, nor did he have a broad network to let him do whatever he wanted. Some are just being bullied, looked down upon, and ignored! Xiao Teng thought of this, so he forced this anger into his heart, and held the prepared meal, but he didn't expect that his hands would be a little deformed because of the anger in his heart.
Xiao Teng only shook his head, sighed, lowered his head and walked towards the sea, Yue Qi and the others.
Xiao Teng secretly made up his mind that he would work hard to cultivate, and one day he would trample all the people who had bullied him under his feet, and he would also make Canghai and Yue Qi look at him with admiration!
Xiao Teng's originally soft and cowardly eyes instantly became a little sharp, he walked to the table of Canghai Yue Qi and sat down, only ate two or three bites of the meal on the plate and quietly left, leaving only Canghai Yue Qi and the two were still gobbling up.
Canghai and the others were also slightly stunned when they saw Xiao Teng, who was a little abnormal, but they didn't find anything wrong, so they didn't think about it so much. The two filled their stomachs and prepared for tomorrow's rematch, and went back to their rooms early to rest.
Late at night, on the mountain of Qingcheng.
Canghai Yue Qi and the others fell asleep early, and they were sleeping soundly at this time. There were only a small number of patrol disciples on the mountain who were circling around Qingcheng Mountain, and at this time, Xiao Teng couldn't sleep at night and walked out of the room, sitting in the garden looking at the moon, blowing the evening breeze as if he was thinking about something else.
At this time, several figures were swishing and shuttling on Qingcheng Mountain, and the speed was unmatched, of course, completely avoiding the sight of the inspecting disciples. But these figures were very coincidental, and they happened to be reflected in the eyes of Xiao Teng, who was looking at the moon in a daze, and Xiao Teng saw that someone flashed an instant of excitement. Stood up and chased in the direction of the figure.
Although Xiao Teng did not find a figure during the pursuit, he could be sure that the figure was running south, and due south was the center of Qingcheng Mountain, and the center was the Lingyun Hall of Qingcheng Mountain, and the figure must have run towards the hall.
Sure enough, Xiao Teng chased him to Lingyun Palace, and after waiting for a while, he found that the three black shadows ran out of the hall, and when he saw Xiao Teng for a moment, one of them kicked him down, only to see that these three people were wearing night clothes, with masks on their faces, and they couldn't see their true faces.
The man in black who kicked him down said fiercely but quietly at Xiao Teng, 'Boy, don't meddle with your business!'
As soon as the words fell, the three of them disappeared from view, leaving only Xiao Teng alone, Xiao Teng felt aggrieved, he was in a very bad mood, and he was kicked to the ground inexplicably, and he was even more angry, and Xiao Teng wanted to get up and continue to chase.
As soon as Xiao Teng got up, he found that there was a secret book lying on the ground, and he saw that the secret book was written 'Jade Void Sword Sutra', and it seemed that those people should be thieves who came to this Lingyun Palace to steal the secret book! Xiao Teng picked up the secret book and stuffed it into his pocket, smiled secretly, and said to himself, "Haha, it's really a blessing to lose your horse!"
Nothing happened overnight.
The next morning, after the disciples gathered at the Yunxiao Platform for routine cultivation after breakfast, there was a rumor on Qingcheng Mountain that the secret book collection of Lingyun Hall was stolen yesterday, and the head and his disciples were investigating the matter, and it was very likely that it was stolen by the disciples in the mountains. The crowd was looking down and whispering something.
Xiao Teng said goodbye to Canghai in a little panic, and returned to his disciple's house, yesterday Xiao Teng took a general look at this Jade Void Sword Sutra, this move is an absolutely taboo technique that hurts the enemy by injuring a thousand and self-inflicting eight hundred. Even if the qi of one's dantian is weak, but after using this move, it will increase its strength greatly, but after the move is completed, it will appear weak, and it will take a few days of rest to recover!
Xiao Teng thought that if he wanted to get ahead, he would definitely have to learn this sword scripture, let alone let them discover that the sword scripture was his own! Xiao Teng thought of this, so he tore the sword scripture into multiple parts, and hid it separately in various places such as cabinets, under the bed, and under the table, so that it was not easy to be discovered. Xiao Teng was busy with these things, but he still had concerns and walked away tremblingly.
After lunch, everyone gathered on the Sky Deck, and the rematch was about to begin.