Chapter 114: Is this grand thief alive? (Two chapters in one)
Xu Tong slowly clenched his fists, and the paper man downstairs also slowly tightened his fists.
The paper figures created between the virtual and the real, with the blessing of spiritual enchantment, are as strong as steel.
The screams downstairs stopped abruptly the moment Xu Tongjiang clenched his fists.
After killing Li Xi, Xu Tong didn't feel happy in his heart, because there was no sense of accomplishment in killing a guy who was weaker than himself.
But on the other hand, Li Xi must die. Even Qian Shu himself can let it go, but Li Xi cannot.
It’s not that I haven’t given this guy a chance, I’ve even given him many chances.
But every time he made the mistake of taking a fork in the road.
Besides, despite the fact that this guy is very picky now, the fate of the partial official Black Tiger is destined to make him more and more difficult to deal with in the future.
Besides, this guy seemed to have started to wake up. If he missed this opportunity, he was afraid that if he tried to kill him again, this guy might run out of the capital.
"Ding dong!"
He stretched out his hand to grab it, and activated the soul arresting technique. Li Xi's soul floated out from the glazed tiles under his feet, and was gently caught by Xu Tong in his hand.
Seeing Li Xi's soul shrinking to the size of a glass bead, Xu Tong couldn't help but wonder, should he throw him into his own reality and make his master happy?
But this idea was rejected by Xu Tong after it came up. On the one hand, the master would definitely not like it.
Just like he didn't feel any sense of accomplishment after killing Li Xi, the master couldn't just beat him up to vent his anger.
This is both boring and confusing, so why bother.
Secondly, if Li Xi wants to enter the Master's Palace of Hell... he is not worthy yet.
Thinking of this, Xu Tong casually threw Li Xi's soul pearl into the fairy road at the entrance of the hall.
Jingle bells, tinkling bells, I saw a stream of colorful smoke coming out of the fairy furnace, sucking Li Xi's soul into the alchemy furnace, and soon Daya jumped out of the hall holding a hot elixir.
The appearance of this elixir is quite nice, with a glass color. I wonder what kind of elixir the soul of a person like Li Xi can refine?
Out of curiosity, Xu Tong put the elixir into the prop book.
【Partial Official Black Tiger Pill】
Those who eat it will receive a bonus without any taboos within three hours.
No taboos:
Ignores the influence of fate and radiates within a 30-meter radius.
(Note: Black tigers, who are partial officials, are destined to live a miserable life. Those who violate the harmony of nature will mostly end up dead. If they survive, they must pay with blood and stir up chaos in the world.)
"Huh?"
Looking at this elixir, Xu Tong silently fell into deep thought.
He...maybe he is also a poor person.
This elixir came at the right time. When Prince Gong rebelled, he was blessed by fate, almost like a god descending to earth, which impressed him so deeply.
It's hard to say whether Taoist Xunlong and the others will be in such a state of blessing when they wait to seize the dragon. With this elixir, they will be well prepared.
Thinking of this, Xu Tong's eyes gradually darkened, he jumped down from the attic and ran straight towards the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
When Xu Tong arrived, he saw that the front of the Taihe Hall was already filled with civil and military ministers, who had been waiting here all morning.
It is not unreasonable that Xiang Gongbao chose to ascend the throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. This palace itself is the largest and most top-notch palace in the entire Forbidden City, and it can be called a unique work.
There are sundials on the platform, one each for Jialiang, a pair of bronze turtles and a pair of bronze cranes, and 18 bronze tripods. The turtle and crane are symbols of longevity. The sundial is an ancient timepiece, and the Jialiang is an ancient standard measuring instrument.
They are all symbols of imperial power.
On the glazed tiles, there are dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, seahorses, fishes, swans, bulls, bulls, and other ten mythical beasts. You must know that even a palace like the Huangji Palace only has nine.
Xu Tong blended in the crowd silently. He was Ma Qi's son and everyone recognized him, so no one was surprised to see him sneak in.
"No??"
Xu Tong looked around, but did not see Taoist Xunlong and Fu Anning. He was having a dispute in his heart, so he listened to a few veterans gathered together to discuss quietly.
"You are obviously enthroned in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, why do you need to go to the Xuanqiong Palace to do the enthronement ceremony first? Isn't this nonsense?"
"Don't you understand this? Isn't this the way emperors have ascended the throne since ancient times? Do you understand that the power of kings is granted by heaven?"
The Xuan Qiong Palace is the only Taoist palace in the palace, dedicated to God Haotian, but it has not been opened for many years. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, the enthronement ceremony should be held there first, which is also unbelievable to these ministers.
"Hey, it's just hard on us old bones. It's so cold at night and we have to wait here."
Several old men were whispering and did not notice that Xu Tong had quietly jumped past them.
Xuanqiong Palace, this is a place Xu Tong didn't expect, but when he hurried to Xuanqiong Palace.
Suddenly he stopped walking and tilted his head to look at the sky above his head.
A ray of golden light slowly rose into the sky, shining faintly.
Although the light is weak, it hangs in the sky like the most shining star tonight, and even ordinary people can see it.
And this is just the beginning, a steady stream of golden light begins to rise from the ground, and the light becomes more and more brilliant.
"Dragon Qi!"
Xu Tong raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't expect it to start so soon.
This seems to be a little different from what Taoist Xunlong said. According to Taoist Xunlong, it is a good time to extract the dragon veins when the time comes, when the world is turned upside down. But this time it seems to be at least a quarter of an hour earlier.
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This made him smell something unusual.
It's not that he is suspicious, but the more important it is for such a big event, the more demanding the time is, and he will never rush ahead of time.
It's like a rocket launch. You agree on the time, minutes, and seconds, but it's impossible for you to launch two minutes earlier.
Thinking of this, Xu Tong took a look at the time and began to use plum blossom numbers to perform divination.
However, the result of the first hexagram turned out to be Shang Shang Zhu [Huo Tian Da You Li Shang Qian Xia]
Fire is great in the sky; a gentleman uses it to eliminate evil and promote good, and surrenders his life in obedience to heaven.
Looking at the hexagram, Xu Tong curled his lips.
I believe you as a ghost.
The mission has reminded you that the risk of seizing the dragon is extremely high. If you sign it for me now, it seems abnormal no matter how you look at it.
Calculate again.
[Gui Mei Lei Ze Gui Mei shocks the top and bottom]
To conquer evil, the position is inappropriate. There is no benefit, and softness can take advantage of strength.
It looked like the same thing now, but Xu Tong still felt it was unreliable.
I couldn't tell what was wrong, but I always felt a very uncomfortable feeling all over my body.
He simply walked forward in no hurry and squatted in the corner and began to count.
I started hexagrams more than ten times in a row, starting with time, then starting with things, and then using the most difficult hexagram with the heart. My goodness, the results were not serious even once.
It seemed that Xu Tong's brain was starting to become a Muggle, but the more this happened, the more it indicated that there was a problem, so he simply gritted his teeth and activated the Life Eye Qimen.
"I don't believe it. I can't figure out why."
Xu Tong was also ill and sought medical treatment in a hurry. He combined Plum Blossom Yishu and Mingyan Qimen together to see what the effect would be.
But I didn't expect that this time it was really different.
Under the calculation of Meihua Yishu, the gray world in front of him actually appeared in messy colors.
This was the first time Xu Tong had seen this situation. When he saw it, Xu Tong simply took out a ball of incense and merit.
Suddenly, the strange door in front of me turned, and the messy lines began to gradually become orderly.
"Headmaster, this seems to be the Bagua array."
Daya squatted at the entrance of the hall and looked at it, and she recognized it at a glance. The shapes outlined by these lines were exactly the Five Elements and Bagua.
Xu Tong also saw it, but these lines were not completely organized, and the incense merits on Xu Tong's hands had been burned clean.
Good guy, that bunch of incense may not seem to have many merits, but it can be said that it has thousands of merits.
It burned away in the blink of an eye, and it was even worse than Nazhijie.
Fortunately, what Mingyan Qimen burns is not the script points, but the incense and merits, I have plenty of them.
If ten thousand notes of merit are not enough, then one hundred thousand notes will be enough for you.
Xu Tong casually took out two more balls of merit and continued to burn them.
Perhaps because the incense had enough merit this time, these messy lines quickly became organized.
“Is it the floor plan of the Forbidden Palace??”
Xu Tong was stunned. He didn't expect that after burning so much incense and merit, he would actually get this thing.
In reality, even one yuan would be too expensive for Xu Tong.
If there is anything different, it is that a formation diagram of the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces has been added to this floor plan.
Is that it??
In doubt, Xu Tong suddenly felt a heat in his nose, and his hands were stained with blood.
Looking at the blood stains on his fingers, Xu Tong became more excited. He felt that this was definitely not the final result of the Mingyan Qimen. He wanted to continue calculating and he would definitely be able to figure it out.
But just at this moment, a sound of fighting came from not far away, forcing Xu Tong to stop and continue his calculations.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky, and sure enough, the Forbidden Palace was already in a storm, and those guys hiding in the darkness also emerged with clear outlines.
I remember that I saw through the Mingyan Qimen that there was not only one great master in the capital, but also many top masters hidden among the people.
Now it seems that these people can't sit still anymore.
The sound of fighting was getting closer and closer, Xu Tong didn't want to cause trouble, so he jumped up to a corner of the palace wall.
He saw a group of people being chased by guards and rushing past him.
These people should be the same group who took advantage of the situation before. As a result, Xiang Jiajun rushed into the palace. They could only hide in the forbidden palace. Unexpectedly, they were discovered and chased all the way here, interrupting Xu Tong's continued calculation.
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Xu Tong had no interest in these people and was about to leave.
Suddenly, he was slightly distracted, and there was a sound of camel bells in his ears. He looked back in confusion, and saw a person's figure gradually approaching on the dim palace road behind him. The other person walked very slowly, but every step seemed to be sideways.
It's the same as more than ten meters across.
"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..."
A gray little bell hung on the other person's crutch and tinkled. The crisp sound made people feel drowsy in their ears.
But he didn't feel this way. Michael's blessing increased his soul strength by 200% and made him immune to mental attacks. The other party's ringtone only made him feel a little dazed, but it had no way of affecting him.
I just glanced at the entrance of the hall from the corner of my eye and found that the three of them were already asleep.
As for the guards and strangers below, they had become confused and stood there in a daze, not knowing what they were dreaming about, with laughter flowing from the corners of their mouths.
Seeing this, Xu Tong was not in a hurry to leave. He shook his clothes and saw a dark brocade robe covering him.
It was in the last script world that after putting on the [Black Brocade Robe] prepared by his master, the effect of the passive uncrowned king was activated.
It can perfectly hide its own aura and even block tracking.
I saw the black shadow getting closer and closer. When I arrived in front of these guards, I paused slightly and slowly raised my black mask to reveal my true face.
This old woman looks like she is probably an octogenarian, but the skin on her face is still rosy and plump. A few black hairs can still be seen on the white hair. There are a pair of dark brown eyes in the slightly sunken eye sockets.
His kind demeanor is as kind and kind as his elders.
The old woman reached out and patted a guard on the shoulder: "My child, how do I get to the Xuanqiong Palace?" Her kind voice gave people a natural sense of intimacy.
The guard pointed behind him blankly: "Go forward, turn left at the third fork, and walk another three hundred meters. When you turn again at the intersection, you will fall down."
"Thank you. You are such a good boy. I don't have anything to give you, so let me give you this."
As the old woman spoke, she took out a golden jade Ruyi from the cloth bag on her waist and pointed it at the guard in front of her. The guard's expression suddenly became weird. He didn't know what he was dreaming about, and he kept making weird laughter.
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Seeing this, the old woman smiled and nodded: "Go to sleep, go to sleep, you can have everything in your dreams."
As she spoke, the old woman raised Ruyi and hit the guard on the head...
"Snapped!"
The cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
Xiang Gongbao stood under the Xuanqiongbao Palace with a dark face and yelled at the people around him: "Why haven't you found it yet? Are you pigs? Look for it again!"
Seeing that the enthronement ceremony was about to begin, Xiang Gongbao couldn't see his son, so he inevitably started to feel a little flustered.
He is just such a son now. If something goes wrong again, what's the use of being the emperor.
But now there is no trace of Taoist Xunlong, his own son, or that brat Ma Hongwen, which makes Xiang Gongbao feel particularly irritable.
"Your Majesty, the enthronement ceremony must not be careless. The time has come. I would like to ask Your Majesty to enthrone the throne first. I will send more people to deal with the Crown Prince's affairs later."
A minister came forward and said.
Xiang Gongbao frowned, nodded when he heard this, stood up and walked towards Xuanqiong Palace.
I saw that the incense table and candles had been placed in the Xuanqiong Palace, and two bachelors were standing aside wearing formal attire and holding yellow fragrant jade tablets.
Normally, this set of rituals should be the work of the Qin Tian Jian, but now that the Qin Tian Jian exists in name only, they can only temporarily hire two bachelors to make up the occasion.
"amateur!"
On the corner building of the city wall not far from the Xuanqiong Palace, Fu Anning held a pair of Western binoculars in his hand and looked at them. When he saw that the two great bachelors were holding the wrong signs, he couldn't help but complain.
Taoist Xunlong on the side smiled and said nothing. They were amateurs, but this did not prevent them from seeking to seize the dragon energy.
Looking at the wisps of light rising in the sky, Taoist Xunlong couldn't help but sigh: "After two hundred years of luck in the Datong Dynasty, there is only such a small amount of dragon energy left. It's really..."
"They were originally foreigners. The three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong entered the Changbai Mountains several times and used the dragon energy of the Changbai Mountains to enhance the national destiny of the Datong Dynasty, so that the national destiny of the Datong Dynasty increased sharply for a time. However, this was counterproductive and had endless consequences. Perhaps today the Datong Dynasty's national fortunes surged. The end of the unified dynasty may be the root of the disaster left by the three emperors."
Fu Anning whispered from the side.
Few outsiders know about this matter, but it is clearly recorded in the records of the Qintian Prison. In the eyes of outsiders, Changbai Mountain was banned by the imperial court just to suppress the local Han people. Little did they know that it was also the source of the national destiny of the Datong Dynasty.
This matter was new to Taoist Xunlong, so he nodded: "This is an explanation."
After saying that, I looked back and saw the eldest princess sitting aside in a daze. She couldn't help but step forward and said, "Princess, are you still thinking about Changyin Pavilion?"
"Well, he won't survive, but why do I always feel that this kid is not dead?"
When Xu Tong is mentioned, the eldest princess always has a lingering feeling in her heart. Even if she doesn't want to admit it, she still feels guilty.
Especially when she thought of all the strange phenomena that happened in Changyin Pavilion at that time, especially at one moment, she even felt a terrifying and magnificent aura forcibly descending into the world.
Even if this aura disappears quickly, you can't pretend it never happened.
So at this moment, the eldest princess concluded that Xu Tong would not survive, so she was giving herself a shot in the arm.
"Actually... not necessarily."
Taoist Xunlong frowned, remembering the hexagram he had calculated for Ma Hongwen at that time, and living towards death.
This was not something he made up, but a result that he had actually calculated, so thinking about it at this moment, he felt a little guilty.
"The blood of his heart has been eradicated and his vitality has been completely cut off. But if there really is a god who wants to save him, it may not be impossible.
only……
For one Ma Hongwen, are they worth going to war to save him at all costs?"
Having said this, Taoist Xunlong seemed to have regained his confidence.
What kind of thing is Ma Hongwen? He has never done anything bad, including rape, robbery, and so on. If you throw this little beast into hell, he will probably not be treated less than one of the eighteen hells.
Are those gods full of food or blind, and can they go against Yin and Yang at any cost, and take huge risks to save him?
It's ridiculous to think about it.
Not to mention that he wanted to laugh, even the eldest princess raised the corners of her lips unconsciously.
"So don't worry. Besides, even if this kid comes back to life, he can still turn the world upside down in your hands and mine."
Fu Anning on the side joked with a smile: "Yes, I really hope that this kid will survive. I haven't had time to settle the accounts with him yet. It's a pity that he won't survive."
After Fu Anning finished speaking, he raised the telescope in his hand and looked around: "Oh, there are really many experts here, including Mengpo from Jiangnan."
In Fu Anning's sight, he saw an old woman holding a cane and wearing a black cloak. He recognized the origin of this old woman at a glance.
It is said that she is a goddess in the Jiangnan area. The so-called goddess is recorded in the "Shenqi Santongjian" in Qintianjian. People who are born with divine wisdom can act as a medium to communicate with the underworld in heaven. , the one who guides all sentient beings.
This means that such people are born with some unique spirituality, and their consciousness can sneak into the netherworld or heaven. Some are even born with magical powers, but there is no fixed explanation of what magical powers they are.
Meng Po is one of them. It is said that this old woman makes a living by eating dreams, and her methods are ruthless and weird. I didn't expect that she would come this time. It was really unexpected.
"It's not surprising, of course we can't be the only ones who have the idea of Dragon Vein."
Taoist Xunlong nodded, not paying attention to the so-called Mengpo you Fu Anning said.
This kind of person knows strange magic and is a bit tricky to hide in dark corners, but once exposed to the light, there is nothing to fear, he can be stabbed to death with one finger.
"There are a few more. Master Duckweed from Luo Sheng Dao is also here. Hey, this old guy can actually move his arms and legs..."
Fu Anning held up the binoculars and looked left and right. When he turned his eyes, he suddenly noticed a drunk man dressed in white appearing in his sight. He was stumbling and looking like he was about to fall down at any moment.
It's just that Fu Anning had no impression of this person. He couldn't tell the truth after just one glance, and he didn't take it seriously.
"Oh!!"
Suddenly, Fu Anning's expression changed and he let out a scream.
He looked forward with confusion on his face and exclaimed: "Impossible??" He didn't forget to rub his eyes as he said this, wondering if he had seen it wrong.
I quickly raised the telescope and took a look, and my whole face suddenly became weird.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Fu An Ning making such a fuss, Taoist Xunlong felt a little displeased. If this man hadn't been of some use, he would have sent him to see the King of Hell by now.
Fu Anning had an indescribable strange look on his face, and without explaining anything, he just handed the telescope to Taoist Xunlong.
“The direction of Jingyang Palace on the left!!”
Taoist Xunlong took out his telescope and looked doubtfully in the direction of Jingyang Palace.
Nothing??
Under the night, there was nothing in Jingyang Palace. Taoist Xunlong was speechless for a while. He didn't know why Fu Anning was so angry. However, at this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from the wall.
He happened to appear in Taoist Xunlong's sight, and with just a quick glance, Taoist Shunlong's expression froze there.
Even his voice suddenly became louder: "How is that possible???"
He put down the telescope in his hand blankly. He was stunned for a while, then slowly turned back and looked at the eldest princess with an extremely serious expression: "Hi~~ That grandson is really alive?"