Chapter 338 Night Talk
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After realizing this, Zhao Duan subconsciously rolled his Adam's apple and swallowed his saliva.
It's really just subconscious, not mixed with other thoughts. After all, I just drank so much. It is an action that people can naturally relieve their emotions when they are surprised.
But when this look fell in Xu Zhenguan's eyes, there was a hint of "disgust" in the empress's eyes.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Zhao Duan was thoughtful and realized that his actions were misunderstood, so he wanted to explain, but found that the current atmosphere and occasion were really inappropriate.
In the past, when the two met, they often had private moments, except for that time when they took a bath in the palace and the empress personally gave him the initiation.
The other times, both parties were fully clothed and the atmosphere was serious.
The king is the king, and the minister is the minister.
The distinction between Jing and Wei is clear.
But now, it's late at night.
Wearing only her "pajamas", she was talking to the empress in the palace boudoir. The other person did not have a majestic posture, but a lazy posture as if she had fallen asleep and was woken up not long ago.
At once……
Quite weird.
"Okay, no need to explain anything, I ordered someone to bring you here."
Xu Zhen looked in front of her. In the past, she was smooth-talking and eloquent, but now she was helpless and stammering. Zhao smiled.
The cold look he had just now melted away like ice and snow.
She walked to the door, kicked off her shoes gracefully and naturally, and threw them at the door.
In his haste, Zhao Duan only caught a glimpse of two white jade feet stepping on the knitted carpet, which were then covered by the floor-length gauze skirt, and there was even a flash of red on the soles of the feet.
No socks... The first thought that came to my mind was this.
Somehow, his mouth became dry again after just drinking a pot of water. It must be because of his bloated brain. Zhao Duan found that his thinking was extremely slow tonight.
He is not as dexterous as before, and he is not as comfortable in front of female leaders, and his reflexes have also become much slower.
It's like I suddenly returned to the awkward posture I had when I just graduated from college and entered the workplace.
"Sit down. You took the risk tonight and made great achievements. It's too late for me to reward you, so how can I care about the hero's slight rudeness."
Xu Zhenguan wrote lightly that while speaking, he took the initiative to come over and motioned for him to sit down too.
And when the empress behaved generously and naturally, the weird atmosphere was relieved, and Zhao Duan felt relieved and felt much lighter.
After thanking him respectfully, the monarch and his ministers sat facing each other on both sides of the coffee table.
Zhao Duan was sitting cross-legged.
Because Xu Zhenguan was a woman, and considering that it was indecent to cross one's knees in front of the courtiers, she bent her legs and sat sideways, with a pair of calves protruding from the gauze skirt and then submerged under the coffee table.
"Tell me, what exactly happened tonight?" Xu Zhenguan asked seriously:
"Ma Yan told me something, but he has never experienced it personally. I want to hear the complete process without missing any details."
"yes!"
Zhao Duan saw that he was talking about business, took a deep breath, put away his distracting thoughts, and said:
"This matter starts from the day when the demon controlled the rebel 'ballast stone' to come to see the minister..."
The empress wanted to hear the details, and Zhao Duan was indeed very careful.
Since his early days, he had been preparing to take action against the rebels. When the demonic path came to visit, he was worried about the long nights and dreams, so he closed the net in advance...
He kept talking until he was forced into a dream.
In the previous part, he did not conceal anything, except for the part about falling into a dream, where he changed his statement:
"I was still conscious at the time, but the demon was still in my dream, trying to further deceive me, saying that the reason why I found him was because I was influenced by the deception, trying to make me fearful.
I have never experienced such strange magic, and I was worried about being deceived, so I didn't dare to say anything more to him, so I followed the method that your Majesty told me to meditate on the Six Chapters Sutra.
Afterwards, the dream was spinning for a while, and I couldn’t remember clearly. I only remember that the demon roared again and again, and then exploded into a ball of white light..."
This was the rhetoric he had prepared long ago.
Xu Zhenguan raised his eyebrows, nodded and said:
"When you meditate on the Six-Chapter Sutra, it is equivalent to entering a state of meditation. When the demonic path invades your dream, you will be wrapped up in it and bumped into it together. The only scroll left by Emperor Taizu is about cultivation. The pulse can be entered.
If outsiders break in, they will be resisted by the power within the scroll... The spinning you see is probably caused by the collision between the two. "
As she said this, she wrinkled her eyebrows:
"But I haven't experienced it before, so I don't know the specifics. Well, I heard from Ma Yan, in the Six Chapters Sutra, you met a red-clothed sorceress? Did she come and defeat the evil soul?"
No... Xiaoma, are you so loose-lipped? Talking about everything... Zhao Duan complained and nodded without hesitation:
"I went to the arsenal to check the information, and I tentatively guessed that the female sorcerer's name is Pei Niannu."
He had no hope of hiding this matter. Firstly, Ma Yan knew about it, and secondly, he came to the palace to check the information and could not hide it from anyone.
Since the empress asked, she should simply be more honest.
"Pei Niannu..." Xu Zhen looked at her eyes with surprise, and suddenly said: "The number one female sorcerer in the world six hundred years ago? Our ancestors did have an encounter with her, but I didn't even know about it. There is something else in the Six Chapters Sutra Such a person."
The meaning of this is a bit unclear.
Zhao Duan could only smile awkwardly, but he had already had a showdown with the empress, and he was the new master chosen by "Dragon Soul".
Therefore, it makes sense that there are some special things in the practice of the Six Chapter Sutra.
Moreover, this makes it easier to explain the killing of the demon.
Since the empress didn't know about Pei Niannu's situation in the Six Chapters, she couldn't estimate his strength. This became something that couldn't be confirmed as long as Zhao Duan didn't tell him.
Anyway, the sorceress in wedding clothes who loves to listen to stories about cultivating immortals cannot come out to clarify...
"Does Your Majesty know the depth of this person? I tried to check, but the information is very limited." Zhao Duan changed the topic smoothly.
Xu Zhenguan was indeed led astray. After thinking for a while, he said:
"I don't know much about it. Six hundred years ago, there was a time of trouble. There were constant wars and smoke in all walks of life. Many classics and even inheritance were cut off. It is also very difficult for future generations to explore. Especially the Jianghu people do not have records from palace historians. Many When a generation dies, it is completely buried in time.
However, I vaguely remember that I once saw in an ancient book that Pei Niannu was a pseudonym, and his true identity is suspected to be a prince and noble from the ancient Xiliang Kingdom..."
The ancient country of Xiliang?
Zhao Duan was stunned for a moment.
He knew that during the six hundred years of chaos, many countries, large and small, had been destroyed. This Xiliang country seemed to be a small country in the Western Region.
Its old site is estimated to be west of Yumen Pass or west of Yangguan, which is really far away from the capital.
A noble woman from a small country in the Western Region?
How expensive is it?
Could it be a princess or something... Zhao Duan was thinking about it and secretly thought that he could look up the information about this ancient country when he had time.
"Put this aside and continue talking." Xu Zhenguan interrupted him and almost went off topic.
"Oh, it's just that... the soul of the evil spirit exploded. Then I took a sudden look and saw two scenes before those memory fragments were completely annihilated."
Zhao Duan continued to narrate, first recounting the complete conversation between Master Bewitching and Zhuang Xiaocheng.
Then he said that he had a quick glimpse of the demon taking out a statue and a candle from a place that looked like a treasure house.
He didn't mention the jade leaf, but he wanted to hide some private money from the empress.
Secondly, I am also worried that if this leaf can really resist the 'Martial God Visualization', then my lies will have huge flaws.
"Is it this?" After Xu Zhenguan listened, he flicked his sleeves, and on the coffee table between the two of them, there was a palm-sized black ferocious statue and three extinguished purple candles.
"Yes, yes!" Zhao Duan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said curiously:
"What is this? Does the demon control the puppet through this thing?"
Xu Zhenguan nodded gently, his jade face covered with frost: "This is the magic weapon of the Ming Sect."
"The Underworld Cult? That evil sorcerer organization in the world?" Zhao Duan was shocked.
After time travel, he is no longer the naive novice he was before, and he usually reads some information.
Although there are still a lot of gaps in knowledge, we still have heard about several evil organizations.
Xu Zhenguan said "En", and seeing the desire for knowledge on his face, he had no choice but to explain:
"The three major evil organizations are the Five Ram Sect, the Ming Sect, and the Baiyi Sect, which respectively believe in the Ram God, the God of Death, and the God of Loss... This evil sect is the believer of the Five Ram Sect, and this sect is different from the other two.
People from the Hades Sect and the White Clothes Sect often appear in groups, similar to sects or gangs. But the Five Ram Sect is extremely loose. In addition to believing in the Ram God and indulging in desires, the members have no sense of superiority and inferiority and tend to live alone..."
She briefly explained the difference before saying seriously:
"It seems that the demon has cooperated with people from the Hades Sect, or at least got help to possess this thing. This can also explain why he died in the palace three years ago and is back now."
Zhao Duan asked the most worrying question:
"Your Majesty, do you think this demon is really dead this time? Or is there still a possibility of resurrection? If he is not completely dead but lives again, will he remember me?"
Xu Zhen looked at him and thought he was worried, so she comforted him:
"Although I am not sure whether this person is dead, but even if he can still live, he will have to pay a big price and will probably fall into long-term weakness. If the Ming Cult really helped him, then even if he really lives again, he will not be able to survive." I will remember that I was killed by you.
He won't even remember all the memories he had after coming to the capital.
Oh, the reason why he knew who to seek revenge from when he entered Beijing this time must have been found out through follow-up investigation. "
Hey, it sounds like, Wife Zhenbao, you are very familiar with the resurrection method of the Ming sect... Your tone is so sure...
Zhao Duan was surprised and felt relieved.
Although he doesn't care too much about the exposure of dreams... After all, who would believe the words of a crazy Taoist priest?
But for the other party to lose this memory, it is still the safest for him.
even……
If Master Bewitching can still be resurrected, and we don’t know how he died this time, then when he recovers, wouldn’t Zhao Duan be able to follow the same pattern and reap another wave?
It's like fattening leeks over and over again... Hey, I suddenly hope he's not dead...
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Next chapter around midnight
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