Chapter 14: The Lost Treasure in a Quiet Fast
A sect has stood for hundreds of years and has not fallen. In addition to its own skillful martial arts and wide connections, it will definitely be strictly guarded against the means of mass killing such as poisoning.
The kitchen is always guarded by people who are proficient in pharmacology, not to mention this. Cihang Jingzhai is built on the mountain, with live water everywhere, connecting the deep pool at the foot of the mountain and directly connecting to the river. It is not realistic to poison the water. The air flows between the mountains and the wind keeps sounding. Poisoning methods such as poison smoke will not have obvious effects. They may be blown away as soon as they are released.
No matter what kind of poison is in this world, after being diluted by the air thousands of times, it is impossible to have any bad impact on those who practice the authentic internal skills of Buddhism, such as Cihang Jingzhai.
But in this case, Cihang Jingzhai's disciples were still injured by poisonous smoke, because some people set up trigger mechanisms in places where some Cihang Jingzhai's disciples often went, and the poisonous smoke erupted at close range and could not dodge.
Who has the strength and motivation to sneak into Dita Peak to target Cihang Jingzhai?
The master of the Zhai, Fan Qinghui and several elders, thought of the Yingui Sect at the first time. After another search, they found that the poisonous smoke in the disciples was indeed specially made by the Demon Sect.
The grudges between the two factions have been around for hundreds of years. It is not surprising that the Yingui Sect came over to target Cihang Jingzhai, but to put it bluntly, such a small method can only hurt Jingzhai's fur at most. Instead, it may cause the Yingui Sect to sneak in to besieged by Cihang Jingzhai's people.
A few ordinary disciples changed to a master who could sneak into Cihang Jingzhai. No matter how you look at it, Cihang Jingzhai made money. The overall strength of the Yingui Sect is at a disadvantage and will not start a full war, so there is no reason to do this.
Then there is only one possibility...
"Transfer the tiger away from the mountain." Several elders looked at each other and hurried to Cihang Jingzhai's important place.
Fan Qinghui stayed in place and checked the corpses of the disciples. Her delicate eyebrows gradually frowned, and she always felt something was wrong.
"ah!"
Several screams came, Fan Qinghui was shocked and rushed over.
Outside a secret basement in Cihang Jingzhai, the elders just now were either fainting or injured, lying at the entrance.
These elders thought they had seen through the plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but they did not expect that their actions would truly expose the important parts to the enemy.
Zhu Yuyan, who was masked with black veil, lightly broke several mechanisms in the aisle and went deep into the basement.
At the end of the aisle, there is a square stone platform, on which is a book of unknown material is placed. There is also a high-legged table next to it, and a sealed gold box is placed on the high-legged table.
Zhu Yuyan picked up the book first, flipped it out, looked at the beginning of the lines, and had already confirmed that this was "Cihang Sword Classic". In order to prevent the mental method from being immersed in it, she did not dare to read it too much, so she quickly reconciled it and put it in her arms.
Just as he was about to leave here soon, Zhu Yuyan glanced at the golden box again. She was curious and slashed the ribbon with true energy and opened the box.
In an instant, a profound and subtle invisible fluctuation spread from the box. Zhu Yuyan felt her tendons swelling and shrinking, and she felt a vaguely uncontrollable feeling. She quickly turned her hand and locked the box up.
With a quick glance, she had already seen the things in the box clearly.
It was a seal carved from beautiful jade, with a corner of which was incomplete and repaired with gold.
With such obvious characteristics and such strange fluctuations, Zhu Yuyan immediately thought of that thing - Heshi Bi, that is, the imperial jade seal.
Zhu Yuyan didn't want to reach out to get such a treasure, but as soon as her hand touched the box, the fluctuations inside the box were transmitted to her, and her meridians were swelling and shrinking in the box, and she was vaguely engaging in the demon.
‘Even if it is covered, you can’t hold it directly with your hands.’ Zhu Yuyan took a step back, and the streamers flew out of her sleeves, ready to hang the box and leave.
"Demon, stop."
A light shout came from the aisle, and four or five clear sword lights were slashing towards Zhu Yuyan at the same time.
This is Fan Qinghui who arrived with another group of elders.
Fan Qinghui herself is not inferior to the seventeenth level of the Heavenly Demon Dafa. The elders around her are only slightly inferior to her. The five of them worked together, and Zhu Yuyan did not dare to win over her, so she had to give up the golden box.
She swirled the ribbons in her sleeves and pushed forward with her hands. The five people in Cihang Jingzhai felt a suction force coming from her, beside or behind her, without any warning, intending to destroy their physical balance and disturb their sword moves.
The people of Cihang Jingzhai know the wonderful uses of the Yingui School’s Heavenly Demon Dafa Heavenly Demon Power Field, but at this time Zhu Yuyan used her own strength to interfere with the five Cihang Jingzhai masters at the same time, which seemed to have exceeded the seventeenth level of the Heavenly Demon Dafa they had learned before.
Without thinking too much, the four elders' sword energy spread across the air, destroying the collapsed air vortex around them. The tacit cooperation allowed Fan Qinghui's sword to drive straight into Zhu Yuyan's throat.
However, when this sword was half a foot away from Zhu Yuyan, it suddenly sank, and then it seemed to pierce a round iron ball, and the sword edge involuntarily deflected.
It is clearly air, and under the influence of the Heavenly Demon Power Field, it can directly resist Fan Qinghui's sword edge.
Cihang Jingzhai and other people were all shocked.
Zhu Yuyan had already seized the opportunity and rose up from the ground. Her figure was graceful, like a shadow swimming rapidly against the ceiling. She rushed out of the basement in a blink of an eye.
Fan Qinghui and others were about to pursue him, but suddenly heard a loud noise. A strong wind wrapped around the outside sand and gravel blew from the entrance of the basement. The flying sand and stones were enough to blow the whole person into the air. In the howling wind, a cheerful voice was heard and chuckled: "Originally, I was just here to get the "Cihang Sword Classic" on the order of Your Majesty. I didn't expect that you nuns also hid the imperial seal, hahahaha..."
A meaningful burst of laughter went away, and Fan Qinghui and the other two broke out through the flying sand. When they arrived above the basement, they saw only a group of disciples surrounding the injured elders just now, and Zhu Yuyan was nowhere to be found.
The faces of several elders were as heavy as water could drip out. One of them couldn't help but say, "In a moment, Jingyi and the others were hurt, and easily escaped from our siege. This is definitely not something that the 17th level of the Demon Dafa can do."
"But she is not the body of Yuanyin, and it is impossible to reach the eighteenth level." An elder retorted.
"It may not be the orthodox practice method of the Demon Sect, maybe it is a different approach." Fan Qinghui said, "The stolen "Sword Book" written by the ancestor was stolen, which is a great humiliation, but we should pay more attention to it. She mentioned the emperor just now."
"No matter whether the Yingui Sect had actually committed suicide to the court in advance, in order to target Cihang Jingzhai, she would probably tell the emperor who was ordering the restriction of the Buddha."
Everyone was silent and a little at a loss.
Since Cihang Jingzhai obtained the imperial seal, he has planned to use the orthodox meaning represented by the imperial seal. In the chaotic times, he chose someone worth investing in and "selecting the emperor" and used the imperial seal to push Cihang Jingzhai's reputation to the extreme.
Because directly presenting the imperial seal to the emperor is at most icing on the cake, how can it truly demonstrate the importance of Cihang Jingzhai? Therefore, it must be given the imperial seal before the Qianlong rises.
In fact, for these nuns, apart from pursuing reputation, they really don’t value too much real profit. From a certain perspective, they really feel that they are not selfish and have the hearts of the people.
Unfortunately, when Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, was diligent in his power, and the world was peaceful as a whole, and there was no sign of chaotic times. When Yang Guang ascended the throne and had the intention of creating great things, he showed signs of chaotic times. After only one year of ascending the throne, Cihang Jingzhai saw that there were signs of chaotic times, so secret activities gradually became frequent and prepared to make plans early to choose a suitable lord of the imperial seal.
These nuns have made plans to wait for ten or twenty years, or even the next generation. Anyway, the Buddhist sect, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, has not been damaged after Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha. They think they have the qualifications to continue waiting.
However, Emperor Wu of Zhou was just dominating the country, but now the Great Sui Dynasty, which unified the Central Plains, has also begun to target Buddhism. Cihang Jingzhai's mortal enemy, seemed to be entangled with the court again, and also discovered the existence of the imperial seal.
The situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
Before the chaos arose, the emperor lives in great justice. If he orders Cihang Jingzhai to hand over the imperial seal, will Cihang Jingzhai hand over or not?
If handed over, not only will the plan to enhance Cihang Jingzhai's reputation be destroyed, but if Yang Guang is overthrown in the future, those who sacrificed the imperial seal will probably be directly nailed to the pillar of shame. However, if they do not handed over or refused to admit it, even if the army is in a hurry, even if people can escape in advance, Cihang Jingzhai's foundation will definitely be greatly damaged. It is almost certain that the mountain gate will be demolished, and all disciples in the sect will become wanted criminals.
After thinking about it, there was no good idea. Everyone had to look at Fan Qinghui and wait for the veterinarian to make up their minds.
Fan Qinghui pondered for a long time and said firmly: "Now we can only take the initiative."
"The news was immediately released. It was said that Cihang Jingzhai accidentally obtained the jade seal of the country and was willing to present this treasure to the emperor with the four great monks."
Chapter completed!