On the hilltop where the ruined temple is located, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, hitting the armor of the border troops on the northern border of Daquan rapidly, making a crackling sound.
The armor worn by the frontier soldiers was mostly worn and covered with scratches from swords, guns and arrows.
New rain beats old armor.
The son of a rich man cannot sit down in court. In order to allow Xu Qingzhou and Xu Tong to free their hands and seize the fleeting opportunity to kill Chen Pingan's four followers, the eldest prince Liu Cong has silently retreated to the mountainside.
In addition to being heavily guarded by dozens of battlefield confidants, these dead soldiers were wearing armor that was heavier than the frontier troops who besieged and destroyed the temple. They were heavy infantry soldiers' standard armor. There were also three outstanding monks accompanying the army, one of whom was Wen Yang.
A swordsman from the Guanhai Realm with a sharp natal flying sword, a Talisman Taoist who is good at forming formations, and a military monk wearing nectar armor.
Liu Cong was determined to get Chen Ping'an's head, but he was afraid of what might happen, and he didn't want to stumble on an unknown hill.
Since Wang Qi, the academy gentleman who is hiding somewhere, is willing to personally participate in this conspiracy, then Liu Cong does not have much trust in this respected leader of Daquan Shilin. If it were not for the conditions given by Gao Shizhen, it would be too difficult.
Tempting, and attracted the Xu family's generals and Caomu'an, Liu Cong really didn't dare to take such a big risk. He was really curious about how valuable the so-called Biyou Mansion treasure was, so that it could be so valuable to an academy member.
A gentleman does not hesitate to violate his conscience, and the abbot planned this siege.
Although Wang Qi had his own reasons afterwards, he could explain to the master of Dafu Academy that he wanted to catch a "deviant" who was pretending to be a direct disciple of the Taipingshan Patriarch Hall, and he could also pour more dirty water on Chen Ping'an's head.
For example, he suspected that this foreigner was a giant monster who escaped from prison and changed his identity and appearance, so he had to invite five thousand soldiers from the north to besiege the mountain. But Liu Cong didn't think this was a seamless explanation.
But this has little to do with him. Wang Qi is still a genuine gentleman in Dafu Academy. As a gentleman, the emperor and monarch of a secular dynasty must obey orders, let alone Liu Cong, a prince. This time he led troops to the mountain.
In line with the rules established by the Confucian Academy, how Wang Qi gave an explanation to the academy after killing Chen Ping'an was not something he, Liu Cong, could interfere with.
But Wang Qi left Mirage City secretly and when he came to the border to find him, he had already entrusted Liu Cong with some of the latent chess pieces of the eunuch Li Li, who was in charge of the Royal Horse Supervisor. To be honest, at that time, he had obtained those pieces scattered in the major palaces in the capital.
Liu Cong was shocked when he found out the records of the dead men of the mountain sect in the Daquan area. The eunuch Li Li was known as Daquan's guardian of the palace. When did the forces become so intertwined that they penetrated the entire Daquan territory?
Why did Wang Qi, as a senior gentleman well-known in central Tongyezhou, get involved with a palace eunuch?
No matter how good Li Li's reputation is in the government and the public, after all, he is just a crotchless old immortal. Compared with your gentleman Wang Qi, there is a huge difference.
However, Li Li died well. The old eunuch had long been impressed by the third prince who had hidden needles in his clothes. The poor third prince had worked hard for more than ten years and did not hesitate to personally take risks. He went deep into the hinterland of the Northern Jin Dynasty and finally destroyed the Pine Needle Lake Water Temple one after another.
And Jin Huangshan God's Mansion, Gao Shuyi was beaten to death on the Yao family's land, and even Li Li, who was invincible in the country, capsized in the ditch. With one careless move, everything was lost. Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation, and it is destiny.
In my Liu Cong!
However, Liu Cong has been fighting on the border for so many years, commanding hundreds of thousands of elite border troops, and has been in battle many times on the battlefield without fear. He found that he was a little uncontrollably nervous today.
————
Before the ruins of the temple, Wei Xian was still like fighting in an inn, with one man at the gate and just guarding the door. If a soldier from Daquan came forward to seek death, Wei Xian would naturally not be polite.
Wearing the nectar armor of Xiyue, he was not afraid of ordinary swords and bows at all. He let them chop and hit the armor, and then just punched him. The armored soldiers who dared to bully him all flew far away. Some of them were close to the temple. The corpse of the door would also be picked up by Wei Xian with his toes. The nature of an emperor is that he would not allow others to snore beside the couch, and now Wei Xian would not allow a corpse to be an eyesore where he stands.
Wei Xian would only dodge the occasional special arrows with hidden secrets. Without exception, they were all shot out by sharp archers at the border in the forest with their strong bows fully drawn.
Compared with the killings by Madman Wu, Wei Xian's actions can actually be described as "gentle and soft".
Dodge and close contact are intertwined. As long as Zhu Lian is close to him or brought close to an arm's length, the nearby soldiers will almost suffer a tragic end. Their armor will be broken, embedded in their bodies, their flesh and blood will be blurred, and they will be killed on the spot. Tragic.
On the battlefield on Sui's right side, sword lights bloomed in the forest again and again, and with one sword sweep, several soldiers were often cut off along with the trees. They fought to the end. For hundreds of steps around Sui's right side, there was not a single tall tree in the forest.
On Lu Baixiang's side, a handful of Tingxue came from the ancestral magic weapon of the Huan family in Feiyingbao. He walked around, or stepped on the trunk of a tree to touch the water. His body disappeared in a flash, and only the blade of Tingxue's Gangqi flowed. It brings out a long-lasting snow-white light in the dark rain curtain.
In just one stick of incense, Daquan's elite border troops had already left behind six hundred corpses. This was because the mountains and forests were not suitable for soldiers to swarm forward.
Chen Pingan, who had been standing at the door of the temple, lowered his head and smiled.
A little lotus flower jumped out of the ground, waving its remaining little lotus-root arm towards him, babbling, and then pointed a direction for Chen Ping'an.
Chen Pingan followed the direction of the little guy's finger, which was the highest point of a mountain. What the little lotus meant was that there were two guys standing there watching the battle. It was so powerful that it didn't dare to get too close to the top of the mountain.
Chen Pingan asked softly: "Then did you see a young man wearing a hibiscus crown and a Taoist robe?"
The little lotus figure shook his head vigorously and waved his hands.
Chen Pingan extended his thumb towards it and chuckled softly: "Go and hide in the temple."
The little lotus flower nodded vigorously, walked as fast as flying, jumped high over the threshold, and saw Pei Qian who was burping. He was a little reluctant. When he saw her for the first time, he didn't like her very much. Later, he probably didn't like her. It was so annoying that it would occasionally appear next to Chen Pingan. Once it just emerged from the soil, he gave Pei Qian a hiking stick and knocked it down with a stick. It hid quickly and poked its head elsewhere. Pei Qian was holding a hiking stick. She ran around wildly, but was teased to exhaustion and failed to hit once. In the end, Chen Pingan pulled her ear and walked for a mile, which made her cry loudly in pain.
Seeing Pei Qian sneaking around, as if he wanted to get the hiking pole, Little Lotus became a little angry. This time, he was not afraid of her at all. He walked to Pei Qian's feet and lay down straight on the ground.
Pei Qian held the hiking stick, hesitated for a long time, glanced at Chen Ping'an's back at the temple door, and finally lost the hiking stick, squatted down, and said with a smile: "You are a loser, you are useless at all.
My father will definitely sell you for money in the future, and then I can buy a lot of candied haws, tsk tsk tsk, it’s so delicious.”
The little lotus figure was sulking and simply lay on his side, not looking at the dark-skinned little girl.
Pei Qian stretched out a finger and poked the little thing's creaky nest, "Little loser, if you become my little follower from now on, I won't let dad sell you for money, what do you think?"
The little lotus figure rolled and crawled and sat cross-legged in the distance, very much like Chen Ping'an when he was studying.
Pei Qian rolled his eyes and said seriously: "Do you know how rich I am now? I have a box that is said to be Duobaoge, and it contains many treasures. Please show some respect to me in the future, do you understand?
If you behave well and become my follower, maybe one day I will be merciful and I will take out a beautiful copper coin from it and give it to you with a wave of my hand like that old Wei!"
The little lotus figure's expression remains unchanged.
Pei Qian said angrily: "You little loser, why are you so ignorant? Believe it or not, I will learn the peerless swordsmanship tonight, and I will poke you all over the head every time you show up? Don't you know that I can see it?
Where are you hiding underground?"
The little lotus figure was a little scared and turned to look at Chen Ping'an pitifully.
Pei Qian immediately smiled and said, "I'm just teasing you. Why can't you bear the joke?"
At the gate of the temple, Chen Ping'an was in a state of confusion.
Now that I know that there are two people on the mountain peak watching the fire from across the bank, I can at least know it well and not be afraid of being caught off guard.
He guessed that one of them was most likely the academy gentleman who was in charge of Mirage City.
Gentleman, I have met Zhong Kui.
The sages of the Academy said that they had the Heavenly Constitution in their mouths, and I had also heard about it at the Sword Village of Shushui Country.
I guess I just met a hypocrite this time, so there is no need to make a fuss.
The level of knowledge is not necessarily related to the level of morality. What's more, the disciples of the academy are also practicing. On the way to practice, the higher you go to climb mountains and become immortals, the more wind and rain will occur on the mountain. Natural temptations and dangers are many. Always stick to your heart.
Not simple.
When I first saw the big river monster fighting the Water Goddess in Biyou Mansion, I felt strange why the Daquan court would leave this monster alone.
It’s hard to say that what that gentleman wants is no longer the principles of saints and sages. He is no longer dedicated to teaching people to be good, but to pursue his own immortality, or other external things, such as... the immortal method on the bamboo slip that "can refine all things"
tactic.
Money moves people's hearts.
Is it any wonder that the desire for immortality could tempt an elderly academy gentleman and lead him astray?
Cui Chan, a great disciple of the saint who was a celestial being in the Twelve Realms at his peak, has taken a different path of deceiving his master and destroying his ancestors?
But what Chen Pingan is most taboo about is the "young Taoist priest from Taiping Mountain" who single-handedly put himself in danger.
It was this person who came to visit Qihe City Post House and personally handed over the jade plaque passed down from the Patriarch Hall to Chen Ping'an.
It wasn't until Liu Cong thought he was sure of victory and leaked a secret that Chen Ping'an realized something was wrong.
Chen Ping'an, who is cautious by nature and careful in everything, was in such a big trouble this time because he had a very good impression of the Taiping Mountain before.
Carrying the long qi sword of the boss swordsman Chen Qingdu, they strayed into the blessed land of lotus flowers. With the help of the mirror, Tong Qingqing and Fan Guaner of Jingxinzhai merged their soul and body into the female crown Huangting.
Chen Pingan had a very good impression of her.
After that, the founder of Taiping Mountain, Lao Tianjun, did not hesitate to destroy the two fairy swords in the mountain guarding formation in order to kill the white ape carrying the sword. In order to save the remnant soul of Zhong Kui, he did not hesitate to fall into danger.
The impression is better.
The first person to know about Taipingshan was when he and Lu Tai entered Feiying Castle and exposed and destroyed the century-old plan of the evil Jindan cultivator. The main culprit of all the disasters in Feiying Castle was the Jindan cultivator who almost killed Chen Ping'an with his mountains.
The evil cultivator tried to raise a Nascent Soul ghost fetus in the heart of the wife of the Flying Eagle Castle. Before that, the young Taoist priest from Taiping Mountain who was chasing the old Jindan should be Huang Ting, who had not yet gone to the blessed land as a banished immortal.
.
Earlier, according to Lu Tai, there was a Nascent Soul monk in Taiping Mountain who had no hope of immortality. His body and soul were decaying. Knowing that his end was approaching, he began to travel around, thinking of doing something for the people under the mountain as much as possible.
Good deeds.
For some unknown reason, he had a conflict with a very aggressive Jindan Earth Immortal from the Fuqi Sect, and the two sides fought fiercely. The latter never expected that the other person, who was weak in vitality, was actually a Nascent Soul.
After being chased to the top of the mountain where the Flying Eagle Castle was formerly located, he tried to kill both jade and stone. He used Fuji Sect's method of inviting gods to come down, but instead of inviting the next god, he used forbidden magic at the cost of his life essence and blood.
To be continued...