Chapter 1164 The Secret of Guanzhong
“Being followed?”
The old man with the eagle nose said in surprise: “Your nose is so sharp, who else can follow you?”
< br>"I can't say, the opponent is not weak, and is extremely good at concealment. If I hadn't been extremely careful and sniffed out clues on the road, they might have succeeded," the hunchbacked man said with a solemn expression.
"Is there such a thing? It shouldn't be. We have been extremely careful. Logically speaking, no one knows our whereabouts."
The eagle-nosed old man pondered for a moment, and then continued: "The matter has come to this, we can't go in vain, no matter what, we must get the holy energy of the mountains and rivers. As long as my skills are restored, I can take you back to see the city lord. When the time comes, There’s no need to hide around.”
“Hmph!”
The hunchbacked man sneered: “Isn’t it because of you that I’m in this situation? Pull me down Shui, how could I be hunted down?”
“What’s the point of talking about this now?” The eagle-nosed old man said impatiently: “You have to think about it, as long as we tell the city lord his secret. , That’s a great achievement. In the future, if you want the wind to prevail and the rain to prevail, wouldn’t it be much better than being inferior to others now?”
“Haha, after all, these are just your words!”
After hearing what the other party said, the hunchbacked man was not moved. Instead, he shouted angrily: "You said he rebelled against the city lord, but you never told me where the evidence is! And the sword manual you mentioned, You should have given it to me when I helped you escape and ascend to heaven, but you kept putting it off, and now you have only given me half of it. , how can I trust you? "
The hunchbacked man became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice had risen several times. Liang Yan had been eavesdropping outside the door. He inferred from the words of the two that they seemed to be talking. To avoid being chased by someone, and this situation of being chased was all caused by the eagle-nosed old man in the house.
"Haha."
The eagle-nosed old man sneered and said lightly: "If I pass on all the sword techniques to you, will you still care about the life and death of this old man like me? Don’t worry, fellow Taoist, as long as we can go back alive, we will get all the benefits we promised you before I will never break my promise!"
After hearing this, the hunchbacked man's face looked uncertain. He was silent in the Taoist temple for a long time. Finally, he controlled his emotions and said slowly: "Okay, I will. I believe you again, what should we do next?”
"Of course I will continue to trace the clues to the holy energy of the mountains and rivers."
The eagle-nosed old man replied without hesitation: "Before you went to participate in the dark market in the north of the city, I secretly contacted an old friend and asked him to help explore the mountains and rivers. News about the Holy Qi?”
“Oh?”
The hunchbacked man raised his eyebrows after hearing this. He immediately asked: "Who is this old friend you are talking about? Is he reliable?"
"Don't worry." The eagle-nosed old man smiled and said: "Although this man has an exaggerated personality, he is He is a person who knows how to repay his kindness. He doesn’t know my identity, but he was a favored person by me back then, and he is here to repay his kindness this time.”
After listening to his words, the hunchbacked man nodded slightly, then narrowed his eyes and said: "Even if this person is reliable, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find clues to the holy energy of mountains and rivers. As far as I know, it's not just us who are looking for this thing, but also Major chambers of commerce are also secretly probing, and even they don’t have any clues. You How can this friend be so good?"
"Haha, the sacred energy of mountains and rivers is one of the seven innate energies of creation, and it is reasonable for the major chambers of commerce to be excited, but they can't find it. , doesn’t mean my people can’t find it,” the eagle-nosed old man chuckled.
“Oh?”
The hunchbacked man seemed to have thought of something, with a look of surprise on his face.
The old man with the hawk-nosed smile still looked cheerful, and then he said with a smile: "Have you forgotten whose territory this is? Although Guangling City is a mixed bag of dragons and snakes, it is still in the Xuanyuan Domain in the final analysis. That friend of mine is The generals in the Xuanyuan Army are now in high positions of authority, and he is much more powerful than the major chambers of commerce here.”
"It turns out they are from Xuanyuan City!"
The hunchbacked man looked happy and nodded: "Yes, Xuanyuan Potian Command is very strict. The Xuanyuan Army must have many informants in Guangling City, and they will take action. , It is indeed better than the major chambers of commerce in the city."
When he said this, it seemed. Thinking of something, he lowered his voice again and said softly: "By the way, I found a person in the dark market today. He"
The voice behind him became lower and lower, and in the end it changed to pass. The art of sound, no matter how mysterious Liang Yan's "Eight Parts of Evolution" and "Secret Technique of Soul Dividing" are, can't be heard clearly.
Just when Liang Yan was curious and wanted to know what he said next, the two people who were transmitting the message suddenly stopped!
The hunchbacked man suddenly turned around, first his nose twitched twice, and then a ray of light shot out of his eyes, looking towards the entrance of the courtyard.
“Who?”
The hunchbacked man shouted low, raised his hand and threw out a yellow light, and went straight to the outside of the hospital to call.
Liang Yan was taken aback and secretly shouted in his heart:
"Impossible, how did he find out!"
With his mind shaken, Liang Yan subconsciously took a step back, touched the Taixu gourd on his waist, and was about to use his flying sword to defend against the enemy.
However, the next moment, he stopped again.
"Huh? That's not right!"
Liang Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he quickly realized that this spiritual light was not directed at him, but at the other side of the courtyard door. Hit it sideways.
Bang!
As a muffled sound came, a yellow stream of light exploded in the dark night, and then a figure emerged from the shadows, waving his hands and smiling: "Slow down, slow down, Fellow Taoist Tiemu, it's me!"< br>
“Ling Chongxiao?”
In the Taoist temple, the voice of the old man with an eagle nose came out.
“Haha, that’s right!”
The man walked slowly from the shadows, revealing his appearance. He was seven feet tall, with a jade tree facing the wind. He waved a folding fan with scattered flowers in his hand, looking at Go up and be gentle.
"On a whim, Ling made a little joke at night. I hope Fellow Taoist Tiemu won't be surprised!" the elegant man chuckled.
"What are you talking about, Fellow Daoist Ling! Who in the entire Xuanyuan Domain doesn't know your reputation as the 'Confucian God General'?" The eagle-nosed old man smiled in the Taoist temple and said, "Since Fellow Daoist Ling is here, am I asking you to investigate? Is the matter already settled?"
"Yes."
Ling Chongxiao nodded, waving the folding fan gently in one hand and walking leisurely into the courtyard with the other behind his back.
Liang Yan felt shocked when he saw this, and took a few steps back.
"This person is not simple. He was hiding nearby just now, and I didn't even notice it!" Liang Yan thought to himself.
You must know that he has made great progress in cultivation and has understood the true meaning of the "Eight Parts of Evolution" from Master Lianxin. It is impossible for monks below the Tribulation Realm to hide it from his ears.
Although Liang Yan had just focused most of his attention on eavesdropping on the conversation between the two men in the Taoist temple, the fact that this person was able to walk so close without being discovered shows his level of cultivation. It is very likely that we have reached the realm of transformation!
Thankfully, Liang Yan had the Tianji Pearl in his body. Although he didn't notice the other party at such a close distance just now, the other party also didn't notice him!
Ling Chongxiao had already passed through the courtyard and walked straight into the Taoist temple. His eyes swept around the room and finally landed on the hunchbacked man. He said with an interested expression: "Although this little friend has not yet entered the realm of sensing between gods and humans, this nose is very sensitive." Now, Ling just came here and he sniffed it out.”
Celestial induction is a sign of a monk in the Transformation Tribulation Realm.
After a monk reaches the peak of Tongxuan Realm, there is no so-called bottleneck. Instead, he has to find his own heavenly and human induction.
Once you have the feeling of heaven and man, you can spy on the way of heaven and vaguely sense when your own disaster will come.
In other words, if you want to experience the three disasters and nine disasters, you must first have the feeling of heaven and man.
The Tongxuan Realm monks have a lifespan of three thousand years. Some monks have been trapped at the peak of the Tongxuan Realm for thousands of years and have never been able to find their own heavenly and human induction, so they cannot enter the Transformation Tribulation Realm.
Only a handful of monks can find the connection between heaven and humans, thus facing their first difficulty.
Among these very few monks, less than 20% can survive their first difficulty and enter the realm of transformation.
Liang Yan had already seen through the hunchbacked man's cultivation level, which was at the peak of Tongxuan.
And Ling Chongxiao called the hunchbacked man a "junior" and said that the man had not yet received the telepathy from heaven and man, which showed that his own cultivation realm was indeed the realm of catastrophe.
"Haha."
The hunchbacked man chuckled in the Taoist temple, stepped back to the corner, and said calmly: "I don't have any great skills, but this nose is still useful, which makes my senior laugh. "
Ling Chongxiao smiled slightly, with a noncommittal look on his face, and looked at the eagle-nosed old man on the futon.
"Fellow Taoist Tiemu, there are already clues to what you asked me to help investigate."
"Oh?"
The eagle-nosed old man narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "He is indeed one of the twelve divine generals in Xuanyuan City. His hands and eyes can reach the sky! Fellow Taoist, please tell me, in whose hands is the holy energy of the mountains and rivers?"
"Don't be impatient, fellow Taoist Tiemu, just listen to me slowly."
Ling Chongxiao said unhurriedly: "In the past few days, I called some of the eyes and ears in Guangling City, and after conducting secret investigations for a long time, I found that this man with the holy energy of mountains and rivers seemed to be deliberately hiding his whereabouts, and did not want to be discovered. But At the same time, several people who claimed to own the mountain appeared in Guangling City. People with "He Shengqi", under the guise of trading, collect the spiritual power of people who come to trade."
When he said this, the hunchbacked man on the side suddenly interrupted:
"Not bad! I also encountered this problem today. There is a person in the dark market. He uses stones to collect spiritual power from everyone. It is said that only the person who makes the stone shine can be qualified to trade with him. I felt something was strange at the time, so I didn’t go forward to inject spiritual power and went straight out of the dark market. I thought I was being followed later.”
"Haha, this matter is indeed a bit strange."
Ling Chongxiao smiled and said: "I secretly sent additional manpower to investigate, and found that these monks who claimed to have the holy spirit of mountains and rivers were all instigated by others. And the person behind the scenes is most likely the person who truly possesses the holy energy of mountains and rivers. Since I can’t find the rightful owner, I will spend my time! I took the time to investigate these monks who secretly collected spiritual power and found that they were all from the same chamber of commerce."
"Oh?"
The eagle-nosed old man was obviously interested and asked: "Which chamber of commerce are they monks from?"
"Jiugong Chamber of Commerce!" Ling Chongxiao said lightly.
"Nine Palaces Chamber of Commerce?"
The hunchbacked man on the side frowned slightly and said: "According to my investigation in the past few days, this Nine Palaces Chamber of Commerce is a dark horse that suddenly appeared. It has a very mysterious background. It is said that there are also people in their chamber of commerce. Experts from the Huajie Realm are in charge, and they have very strong financial resources. They have the capital to compete with the Wenxiang Chamber of Commerce, the Jialan Chamber of Commerce, the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce, and the Luowang Chamber of Commerce.”
< br>"That's right." Ling Chongxiao nodded and said: "This Jiugong Chamber of Commerce is very mysterious, even I can't find out their details, and they have not set foot in Xuanyuan Territory before, they should be somewhere else Hongshang. This 'Wentai Treasure Fighting Conference' seems to have appeared out of nowhere."
The conversation between the three people naturally reached Liang Yan's ears word for word.
The reason why he traveled thousands of miles and came to Xuanyuan Region alone was for the holy energy of mountains and rivers. Unexpectedly, after many days of investigation in Guangling City, he finally got clues in this remote Taoist temple.
"Nine Palace Chamber of Commerce. I've heard people talk about it before." Liang Yan secretly thought in his heart: "This 'Confucian God General' is one of the twelve God Generals in the Xuanyuan Army. His status is not low. The information he investigated It should be reliable, maybe the Jiugong Chamber of Commerce really has something to do with the holy energy of mountains and rivers."
While thinking about it, Ling Chongxiao in the Taoist temple suddenly frowned and looked at the big tree in the courtyard.
“Fellow Taoist Tiemu, did this old locust tree in your yard have such a faint aura of death before?”
As soon as he said this, no matter in the Taoist temple, The old man with a hawk-nosed nose, the man with a hunchback, and Liang Yan outside the Taoist temple all changed their expressions.
“Oops!”
Liang Yan realized in an instant that he had absorbed the death energy in the coffin not long ago in the unscented secret room, causing the life and death energy in his body to lose balance.
Although he is now highly cultivated and can suppress this death energy, the extra death energy can easily escape.
What enters the yard now is just a wisp of his own soul. It does not control the death energy as well as the main body. Although it is completely invisible under the cover of the Tianji Pearl, the death energy in the clone soul is unknown. It leaked out unconsciously.
Of the three people in the Taoist temple, the hunchbacked man had insufficient cultivation and the hawk-nosed old man was seriously injured. Only the "Confucian God General" had unfathomable cultivation and keenly noticed the strangeness in the locust tree.
Liang Yan was a little wary of him, not only because of his cultivation, but also his status as a divine general.
"Let's go!"
This was Liang Yan's first reaction.
At this time, he no longer had to hide. With a thought, the soul in the courtyard flew out, merged with his true self, and then disappeared into the light and flew away into the distance.
“Hmph, the locust tree is regarded as a ‘ghost’. It’s not that there is something strange about the locust tree, but someone is playing tricks here!” The old man with an eagle nose sneered and looked at the hunchbacked man in the corner.
“I’ll chase you!”
The hunchbacked man spoke expressionlessly, and was about to chase him out of the Taoist temple, but was stopped by Ling Chongxiao on the side.
"This person is not simple. With all due respect, I may not be his opponent."
The "Confucian God General" of Xuanyuan City had a calm tone and a gentle face. He held a folding fan in his hand. As soon as he stopped it, he turned around and smiled at the old man with a hawk-nosed fist. Said:
"Fellow Taoist Tiemu, if Ling does one last thing for you today, the previous kindness will be wiped out. From now on, we will not owe each other anything!"
Thank you: I stole half a day of free life and rewarded you!
(End of this chapter)