Chapter 296: The chess game
The fog in Zhanlu Mountain is deep and the evil wind is shaking. Countless charred corpses are still wandering and wandering in the open space. The strange shadows are all standing with their heads raised, looking at the place of Mars in the heaven.
The fire in July is flowing and the clothes are given in September. Therefore, Gu Yanwu believes that everyone in the ancient three generations knows about astronomy, but chanting about astronomy does not mean that you can recognize the celestial phenomena. Even if you look at the source of astronomy knowledge in detail, no one can guarantee whether it comes from these unrecognizable alien visitors.
"Zhao Master Zhao, this matter is just a one-sided statement from Jiang. If you still want to attack him, please give yourself a try. It's not convenient for Jiang to accompany you."
Jiang Wenyao looked at the endless darkness, and Zhao Wuji's skills seemed to be quite profound. He sent a message with one hand to the point of being so mysterious that it made it difficult for Jiang Wen to judge the exact location.
The purpose of his words was to inspire Zhao Wuji to show up, because based on his understanding of Zhao Wuji, even though this person was insidious and cunning, Jiang Wen was 90% sure that he was keen on playing with human nature, but he was disdainful to steal the last thing from the poor man.
Sure enough, no more sounds came from the darkness except for a cold snorkeling.
Jiang Wenyao thought hundreds of years ago, there might have been such a sloppy man dressed in a Taoist priest. He looked at Peng Zu's back with a divine face and let him leave. Even though he was a monk seeking Taoism and pursuing immortality, he was still unable to be interested in the golden liquid medicine that Peng Zu had.
Sanfeng Patriarch was a person with extensive knowledge. Jiang Wen also thought that after seeing the truth about the Immortal Festival in Jiehe, he had become quite resistant to the tragic events brought by the Immortals of the Rainbow. No matter how naked the truth was, it could not penetrate his defense.
But they never expected that behind the story of "Eternal Life Going" as an immortal, there would be such a sad and coldness.
Perhaps in the group that created the concept of "immortality", the value that humans can understand is so simple that it is beyond words. "Eternal Life" means old age, first having the age of immortality, then "going" to immortality in the mountains for a hundred years, gradually breaking away from the constraints of daily social life, and can be called immortals.
Later generations may think that becoming an "immortal" and entering the mountain means leaving behind etiquette and being free and unrestrained. However, in that wilderness, "immortal" may be the abandoned part. When living in clusters can only survive, this is an exile that is approaching death.
A generation in Hubei once discovered a large number of "cliff tombs" from the Spring and Autumn Period, which is the "Sent to Death Kiln". The source of its customs comes from the Weiguo, which was the "Eighth Division of Muye" with Peng State, and is also known as the "Liguo".
This vassal state of different surnames, which had made great contributions, was gradually rejected and expelled by the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the inscription of "Guibo Gui", "The king ordered Yigong to conquer Mei Ao, and Yigong announced that he would arrive. On February, Mei Ao came to see him, and (provided silk). The general idea was that King Zhou ordered Yi to notarize the Mei (Wei) Kingdom to criticize Mei (Wei) Kingdom, and Yigong issued a proclamation for the suppression. In February, the king of Mei Kingdom asked to surrender and presented cloth and treasures. Although Weiguo tried every means to please the Zhou family in order to continue to survive in the capital of Zhou, the ending was still not optimistic and was forced to move south again.
The road to migration of Weiguo south was very long. The tenacious Weiguo crossed the steep Qinling Mountains and overcame various difficulties. He arrived around the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty and established the country again in Zhushan County, Hubei Province. At the same time, the custom of "abandoning the elderly" appeared. The "sent-death kiln" used to abandon the elderly was established in the mountains and fields, and even continued until the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The same ups and downs will lead to the same customs. The experience of Peng Guo moving to Wuyi Mountain may be exactly the same.
"Zhuangzi" says that Peng Zu passed by the Xia Dynasty and Yin Dynasty to the anniversary of the anniversary of the reign of the Yin Dynasty. People also say that Peng Zu was good at health preservation and lived for 800 years. In fact, it refers to Emperor Yao's title of Peng Zu to establish the country, and was finally destroyed by Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty, referring to the national destiny of Peng Kingdom that was destroyed for 800 years. Later, descendants were scattered all over the country, and they rose and destroyed, and finally the entire clan disappeared into the deep mountains and forests of Fujian.
But no one expected that in the depths of the mountains in northern Fujian, the leader of the Peng Zu family, who once led his tribe members into the barren land with hope, longing for the "Fujian Country" as he said. But he became a sinner in the tribe who was exiled to the mountains along the way by jackals, poisonous snakes, diseases and disasters, and the desolate and remote destination.
So this Peng Zu leader of an unknown generation wandered wildly in the mountains. He actually found and took the golden liquid medicine, turning the immortal "Peng Zu" into reality - even if the price paid was to lose all traces of being a human being.
The so-called ancient immortals may be the elderly who survived wildly under the influence of "fear of old age".
So during the savanna, the "Immortal" who was mottled like ancient pine trees and plump hair like feathers had already leaped for several steps, hiding in the chaotic mountains and jungles, gradually disappearing, and the last Kunwu people in this world were scattered in the darkness...
But at this time, the dark sky was once again surging by ten spirits of the sky. What was lingering from all directions was the bitter wind and the biting spring cold. It seemed that an invisible force was withdrawn from the sky, and it was reversed to the location where Jiang Wen was.
Jiang Wen didn't know the secret of the formation, but he didn't need to worry about distinguishing the intuitive hostility.
After losing interest in seeking the golden liquid medicine, Zhao Wuji obviously turned his finger to Jiang Wen, who was alone. His plan was the same as Jiang Wen, who originally planned to take the opportunity to get rid of this life-long enemy rather than playing with the scene of heroes sympathizing with each other.
Jiang Wen frowned and sneered coldly.
"The leader is busy with his affairs, and it is useless to stay in this wilderness mountain. Why bother so much?"
[It's not that I was interested in lingering in Songxi County, but I heard a lot of bizarre news in Chong'an County, and there were also riots in Songxi County. If the Taoist priest was easily sent back, I'm afraid there will be many changes on the way.]
The seemingly harmonious interoperability of the existence and whether there was anything but a manifestation of the two deliberately disguised. After a fierce spy and repeated battles with each other, they finally let go of their last disguise.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhao Wuji clearly has something to say.
Chong'an County is the place where Wuyi Sect founded its founding sect. The disciples and disciples are now walking in the county. Songxi County currently lives ten people including Yuan Ziyi, Yan Yongchun, Luo Shuang'er, and the Holy Mother of Honglian, all of whom have a deep connection with Jiang Wen.
I don’t know if this “change” has already happened, or if it had to leave without knowing the current situation before it suddenly happens?
"Zhao Wuji, if I was not wrong, you should be bound by the backlash of the Ten Mountains Formation and unable to escape for a short time, so you pretended to be mysterious and talked to me here to delay time, right?"
Then Jiang Wen smiled and said, "How could you know that I have no backup plan? Is it because I have the same thoughts?"
If it is empty, it is real, and if it is real, it is empty. Zhao Wuji obviously deceived Jiang Wen before.
He said that he was not clear about Jiang Wen's whereabouts, but as of now, Zhao Wuji not only knew Jiang Wen himself, but also the whereabouts of the people involved in Jiang Wen's side. Only what he expected was Jiang Wen's sudden appearance in Zhanlu Mountain with only clues in his hands.
[The Taoist Master’s knowledge of the past and the present is something I have always admired. Today I met in the mountains. Why not sit down and talk about it? It is enough to comfort my life’s hope.]
Before Jiang Wen could refuse, an eight-year-old boy with a dull look like a figurine puppet, wearing an apricot yellow gauze jacket and carrying a chessboard and chess pieces on his back, appeared in front of him without fearing Jiang Wen's murderous aura and evil spirit at all, and fell a white boy on his own.
Jiang Wen sat down immediately, and without thinking, a black piece fell next to the white chess. Then the two of them went back and forth on the left side of the chessboard, making a move like flying. Almost as soon as the former had just finished the first time, the latter followed suit.
After dozens of hands, the dumb boy in front of him looked at the black guy who had become a fool in the upper left corner and was defeated. He raised his head suddenly and frowned and said.
“…You can’t play chess?”
Jiang Wentou didn't raise his head and made a move into the other party's empty space.
"Don't worry, you just say I'm going to do it quickly."
The boy stopped falling to the ground in disappointment, looked at Jiang Wen with some anger, ignoring the other party's whole piece of irritable dead chess, but Jiang Wen knocked on the chessboard and urged the other party to make a move quickly.
"Hurry up, hurry up, be careful to admit defeat overtime - I have been practicing stacking chess pieces for twenty years, and today I will let you see the style of a national player."
Seeing that Zhao Wuji ignored Jiang Wen's rogue behavior, the boy obviously acquiesced to all this, so he returned to his appearance as a fool, and continued to surround and kill with his layout advantage.
But what he didn't know was that Zhao Wuji was speaking to Jiang Wen with the method of transmitting voice.
[If the Taoist priest only cares about delaying and fails to make a move, I will take this game lightly. However, I don’t know how many of the three killer moves I have prepared this time?]
Jiang Wen smiled slightly and ignored him.
When the boy reached the fifty-fourth hand, he suddenly found that the black piece in Jiang Wen's hand had been replaced with a stone, and was suddenly placed on the chessboard, occupying three or four grids, surrounding the originally airtight white piece, and squeezed out a crooked arc.
Jiang Wen looked at the chessboard with a smile. The boy looked at the stone in the dark and found that it seemed to be cut by a sharp weapon, and the word "car" was deeply engraved.
"Look at the boy, I'm a rampant hard car. Can you eat it?"
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In Chong'an County, the abandoned government office was already filled with fire, and the sound of ghosts singing was endless, and the fire was as bright as day.
The county people who should have been panicked and rescued the fire were now led by a group of soap-robed green boots and watched coldly, as if the fire was burning in a mirage, and had nothing to do with the county town where they were born and raised. They completely ignored the clear and cool canal and flowed eastward at their feet.
"It's burned well. After burning these things, the county government will never be able to build them back..."
The senior brother Qiu Jiuzhang murmured to himself, surrounded by everyone and went to the front of the wandering team, crossed the fragrant wood sedan chair that was tilted to the ground, and looked towards the front of the road.
Shi Zhongyu, a disciple who had just joined the sect, was now surrounded by a god with a scattered body and a stalker, fighting like a turning lamp.
Those scented and white-crowned gods who were supposed to sit in the sedan chair had already come out by themselves by smelling the human taste. Their fists and kicks were like copper and iron fighting, with great force enough to crack stones. As the limbs danced violently, the gold and powder makeup on the faces of the gods gradually fell off, revealing the skin that was so shriveled and shriveled that it was hard to hang on the bones. The deep blue flesh was almost black, and they were obviously corpses that had been dry for a long time!
The little stone was trapped in it, and the fists and palms were still running like the wind, but they didn't know how to turn around and move with their short body. They only focused on fighting with injuries and fought with injuries, and they seemed even more fierce than the gods.
Even though both fists cannot match four hands, they often suffer heavy punches from consecutive hits and their hands and feet are wrapped around the palms of dead trees, the little stone just shook his body and broke free from the constraints and continued to reverse the situation. For a moment, no one dared to stop it.
"Senior brother, you can't let this kid continue to make trouble anymore, there is not much time left!"
Chen Henggui, the second senior brother who was hit by a small stone, had already fluttered out of the water at this time, pulled out the pig-killing knife from his waist and approached Qiu Jiuzhang and said angrily.
Qiu Jiuzhang's round face turned dark and he scolded: "Do you think I don't want it? Do you know that these Nuo gods are even afraid of the masters of the martial arts world, but now they can only compete with him!"
Chen Henggui gritted his teeth and said, "So what? If we can't walk to Water Gate tonight, we will have no way out!"
Tonight, the Jingzhang Sect was filled with public opinion. The three of them, as the mastermind, had to shoot. They had to take advantage of the government's harshness and weakness, and arrived at the Water Gate as soon as possible and occupied it. If they were sneaky officials from the alleys of the Shuifang, they would be passive.
Fortunately, the old government office caught fire and restrained the power of the officials. Even though their steps in the Jingzhai Cult are blocked at this moment, both sides are still on the same starting line.
Qiu Jiuzhang calmed down his annoyance and turned to his third senior brother Zhu Min and said, "Third brother, this child was brought by Junior Sister Tian. Are you seeing her?"
The third senior brother Zhu Min has been hiding in the team.
"Well, I ran away as soon as I started to make a fuss. It seems that I had planned it for a long time, so we only captured the second official Zhao."
"Take people to chase them, don't let her leak the news! A man leads people to divide their troops from a small path, and be sure to arrive at Water Gate as soon as possible!"
Qiu Jiuzhang was also very anxious.
Among these sedan chairs, the Nuo God was left by the former old leader of the Jingqi Sect. Even as a great disciple, he only knew the reason but did not know why.
More than ten years ago, Qiu Jiuzhang saw the secret room full of human remains. He saw how the old leader stole the immortal molted mummies from Wuyi Mountain that had not been rotten for thousands of years, and then opened it to the stomach, and put some kind of internal organs into the mummy body to make it into the Nuo God. He said that it was intended to imitate the human body structure and make it "live".
Qiu Jiuzhang later found out from the monk that this was a Buddhist method called "pretending to hide". However, for some reason, the old leader used not the gold, silver, glass, glass, conch, red pearls, and agate in the Buddhist scriptures, but replaced it with some more bizarre and sinister things.
Qiu Jiuzhang knew that there must be something wrong with this thing.
It was not until his death that the old leader taught Qiu Jiuzhang the recorded experience notes in full. He said that the method of the Nuo God originated from a group of strange people he met when he was mining and burning charcoal in the mountains of Chong'an and Songxi when he was young, which contained the mystery of immortality. The reason why he told me was that Qiu Jiuzhang wanted to do it according to the law after learning it, and also opened his body to such a belly, and then put it in a magical sedan made of fragrant wood.
In this way, until the three stars of the sun, moon, stars and stars return to their positions, he will become an immortal and live with the heaven and earth.
As a practitioner of medicine, Qiu Jiuzhang had no idea about this matter at all, but he looked at the "organs" in the old leader's altar jar that were clearly made of soil but were difficult to distinguish between the five internal organs of the human body. Finally, combined with the secret records of his ancestor Qiu Chun in the genealogy, he understood that this method must be related to the "drought pill" that Chong'an has been circulating since ancient times. This method was even to imitate the bones in the natural fire cave.
Unfortunately, the old leader did not reveal what raw materials these "organs" made of soil until his death. He just murmured about "Xishan Beiyan" when he was dying, but Qiu Jiuzhang never knew the key points and could not find out about this place.
The old leader seemed very sure that he could survive and said that he would teach the immortal skills to his great disciples at that time, but until now, the old leader with skinny brocade robes was still sitting on the magnificent shrine covered with gold and jade.
His body has deep eyes and mysterious eyes, and his shoulders are tied with neck. His dry skin is quite ugly. It exudes the ethereal fairy spirit after the bones are stored and flesh is dissipated, but there is no sign of resurrection like the Nuo God.
Qiu Jiuzhang sighed and told the command.
"Passing it, let everyone recite the mantra together, and they will be protected by the gods and will be protected by everything!"
With the sound of singing "The ancestors are compassionate, the ancestors are rescued", the firewood candles that are tilted in their hands are once again raised along the smoke, turning into a cloud of boiling smoke, shining towards the zenith in distant light, and everyone seemed to believe that they were blessed.
At this moment, the gods in the niche that they usually worship devoutly did come back to life and staged a big show in front of them, which made the believers cry and laugh, and they were full of strange things. For a moment, evil and monsters intertwined, stone lions were silent, big trees were worshipped for no reason, puppets were floating, ancient coffins were hesitating, guessing gods and immortals, singing in harmony, wine, meat, fragrant paper, men and women were rushing.
Xiao Shitou was alone, in front of these almost crazy groups of Jingzhang scholars, surrounded by the stinky corpse of the Nuo God, he had no idea of retreating. His eyes were half ignorant of complex world affairs, and half was stubborn with limited cognition, and his feet were standing in place as if they were rooted.
Xiao Shitou glanced at the crowd, where there was no trace of Tian Qingwen. Then he continued to use his martial arts in a straightforward manner to block the front of the team and prevent Jingzhang from moving forward.
He didn't know how long he would need to block this way, but as long as his junior brother did not show up to stop him, he would stay here, just like the stone cart on Jiang Wen's chessboard surrounded by Baizi. Even if he was worried about his death, he would move forward.
Chapter completed!