Chapter 1722: Each others bait and each others hook
In the underground palace, which had been almost reduced to ruins, corpses were lined up in dense rows.
The blown heads, broken limbs, and blackened remains... together created a strange scene in the ruins. Everything was static, with only scarlet blood flowing everywhere, like blood that still had spirituality.
Snakes, greedily looking for something to eat in the darkness.
Among the broken walls and rubble, Zhang Linchuan sat on the only large chair that was intact. He was wearing a black robe with white lines on it. His robe and his throne looked spotless.
In front of the Pope's throne, several corpses that still retained a strong aura were scattered on the stone steps.
Among them, the corpse closest to the Pope's throne was that of a strong woman. Her hair was stained with blood, and she was lying face down, but she still stretched her right hand forward as much as possible, as if to grab something.
With only two steps left, she could cross the end of the stone steps and get close to the throne of the cult pope. Unfortunately, she was no longer able to do so.
Zhang Linchuan probably didn't care about all this. The stone steps were already dirty, so he had to sit here. He held a handkerchief embroidered with bamboo leaves in his right hand and was slowly wiping his bloody left hand.
His movements were very meticulous, every knuckle was wiped clean and white, and even the gaps between the nails were taken care of.
"Winggui wants to kill me, I can understand."
he said calmly.
While speaking, dark lightning danced in his hair.
He treated his fingers as if they were fragile porcelain.
He continued: "But he still disgusts me, and I can't accept it."
It was very quiet in the underground palace.
"When did you arrive?" he asked again.
"When the leader was killing the last woman." Lu Yan, the former second elder of White Bone Dao, floated down. There was a wisp of smart black energy surrounding his body, and his feet remained in the air.
"Then why didn't you take action?" Zhang Linchuan asked with interest.
Lu Yan replied in a vicissitudes of voice: "I may not be able to receive the reward. After all, I am also a remnant of the White Bone Path."
Zhang Linchuan had already wiped the blood off his hands. He raised his left hand in front of him and checked it over and over. He said, "I'm asking why you didn't help me. You are my chief protector.
A close confidant...an old friend who has been with me in my struggle for many years."
Lu Yan said: "If you can't even cope with this situation, you will be captured and killed by the Sanxing Palace sooner or later. I don't see any need for me to help you."
"You have great confidence in me." Zhang Linchuan put down his left hand and looked at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan said calmly: "If I don't have confidence in the leader, I should hide like other Dharma Kings, or like the Winged Ghost, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and bring some people to find you."
Zhang Linchuan moved his fingers dexterously, carefully folded up the handkerchief that had turned into blood, and put it into a special storage box.
"Maybe that's right," he said.
"At least Yigui has proven his mistake." Lu Yan said.
Zhang Linchuan burst into laughter: "Yi Gui almost had someone beat him to death just for drinking breast milk. He was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to betray me, the leader of a cult, to atone for his sins... This is understandable.
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"Do you want your subordinates to check who led this raid on the underground palace?" Lu Yan asked.
"What's the need? The source of the matter is not here."
Zhang Linchuan turned his right hand and the storage box had shrunk into a very small square and disappeared between his fingers.
On this lonely papal throne, he crossed his legs, intertwined his fingers, and rested them on his knees.
The movements are casual and even leisurely.
He looked at Lu Yan quietly, with a smile on his face but extremely indifferent eyes.
Lu Yan is already an old man and a high-ranking member of a cult. He has experienced a lot in his life. What kind of evil lord has he not seen before? He feels a little unnatural at this moment.
"What is the leader going to do next?" he asked.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" he added.
I don’t know if it was this nervousness that moved Zhang Linchuan.
"What else can be done?" Zhang Linchuan twitched his lips: "If you can't recruit tens of millions of believers, just kill tens of millions of people. You can still achieve greatness."
The number of tens of millions of people sounded light and airy, as if it were a joke. But Zhang Linchuan's eyes definitely didn't look like he was joking.
Even Lu Yan has done all kinds of evil in these years, killing people like mowing grass, and even participated in leading the sacrifices in Maplewood City... At this time, he didn't know what to say.
There is no need to talk about some illusory divine punishment or anything like that.
Although the Wusheng Sect is in dire straits now, it is just a street rat in this world, and everyone wants to beat it.
But if Zhang Linchuan really wants to kill tens of millions of people, he will not be as simple as a rat crossing the street, but a life and death enemy of the human race!
All the three Dharma Palaces will be dispatched, and the three Dharma Palace leaders will personally take action to arrest the murderer. Even the Three Holy Lands of Taoism and even Shushan will have people coming!
It was really heaven and earth, there was no place to hide.
"Okay, I'm just kidding you." Zhang Linchuan chuckled.
In Lu Yan's eyes with complicated emotions, he added: "Maybe there is no need to kill so many."
His eyes carefully scanned the corpses on the ground: "It would be nice to kill more people at this level."
The expression on Lu Yan's face went from stiff to relaxed and back to stiff again.
Finally, he grinned unnaturally: "So the leader deliberately gave Yigui a chance, just to let him recruit more masters for you to kill?"
Zhang Linchuan looked at him quietly and said nothing.
Lu Yan was silent for a moment and then said: "If you kill too many people, I'm afraid it will harm Tianhe."
He felt awkward saying this.
Is this still what the cult leaders should say?
How had he ever cared about killing people? What kind of peace had he cared about?
"I mean... if you kill millions or tens of millions like this, you may be targeted by God's will. The leader is a person with great potential..."
Zhang Linchuan smiled: "You are the senior in practice, many years ahead of me. But do you understand God's will?"
Lu Yan said hurriedly: "I am just a little older. The leader is a scholar of heaven and man. Naturally, I am not as understanding as the leader."
"Don't be so serious." Zhang Linchuan smiled and said: "We all should know that when people live in this world, they have to fight against God's will. Otherwise, thunder, rain and dew are all God's grace. Why would you dodge or avoid it?"
"Practicing this kind of thing is going against nature. Birth, old age, illness and death are the cycles of heaven. But you don't want to grow old, don't want to get sick, and don't want to die. You actually want to continue to break the life limit... Is this what God wants to see?
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The life span is a big limit, but practitioners don’t think about the big limit.
The higher the level of cultivation, swallowing up the Tianshan Mountains, vomiting out the Divine Sea, moving mountains and filling rivers with every movement of one's hands and feet. How much vitality can be mobilized in just one breath? What benefit does all this have to the world?
If I kill these people who oppose God's will and kill these practitioners who defy Heaven, isn't it just following Heaven's orders? Isn't the more the better? I should be favored by Heaven."
Lu Yan had already chopped these words into pieces in his mind and did not dare to really listen to them.
Because he knows that Zhang Linchuan has his own reasons. Zhang Linchuan's path is really within it!
If he listened to it, he would easily lose himself and lose his own path. But he is not one of those people who has no self and only seeks strength.
He didn't even dare to listen to it, so naturally he couldn't object. Finally, he reluctantly said: "The leader has his own principles."
Zhang Linchuan spread his hands indifferently: "And you see, there is nothing I can do. My junior brother Jiang is too cruel. I just want to leave a bad seed in his friend, but he actually wants to kill my whole family. Oh no, Quanjiao
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He lowered his eyes and said in a strange tone: "But it's almost the same. My whole family has long been gone. The sect was my home... and now it's all gone."
The corners of his mouth curled up: "In this case, Junior Brother Jiang and I have a grudge to destroy our family!"
Things finally returned to a part that Lu Yan was relatively familiar with.
Of course the top leaders of the cult killed people profusely and committed all kinds of evil. Of course they should engage in some conspiracies and plots. It wouldn't be a big deal to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of people. But the number of "tens of millions of people"... was too much. He didn't even know it.
How does Zhang Linchuan do it!
In order to plan the incident in Maplewood City, he, as a high-level executive of the White Bone Dao at that time, had been planning for an unknown amount of time. In the end, Zhuang Gaoxian, the thing with a human face and a beast's heart, plucked the peach, and the White Bone Dao also died out.
He would never dare to commit such a serious sin.
"How does the leader plan to deal with him?" he asked.
Compared with the goal of massacring tens of millions of people, dealing with Jiang Wang is more specific.
Zhang Linchuan said softly: "It's not your place to ask."
Lu Yan then understood that Zhang Linchuan had his own ideas. He really couldn't figure out how Zhang Linchuan could make a comeback in this situation, with Jiang Wang overwhelming everyone with his overwhelming power, like the blazing sun turning into residual snow.
But this person is Zhang Linchuan after all...
He just said: "Then is there anything I can do for you?"
"Let me think about it..."
Zhang Linchuan looked up at the dome above. There was nothing there. He thought seriously for a while, and then said, "It doesn't seem like there is anything."
Looking at the young Patriarch in front of him, Lu Yan could hardly remember the Bone Messenger who was respectful to him back then. The memory of the past was as old as a wisp of smoke, sinking into the gray-white scroll.
But he has always known how to maintain his posture, just like his devotion to the Bone Evil God.
"Then I won't disturb the leader...I'll leave first." He then said.
Zhang Linchuan said nothing.
After Lu Yan saluted, he flew out cautiously.
"Wait a minute." Zhang Linchuan suddenly said.
Lu Yan paused.
Turning around slowly: "What are the orders from the leader?"
At this moment, he regretted very much. Why did he come to the underground palace? Why did he have the idea of waiting for an opportunity? He should have found a place to hide and remain anonymous like several other Dharma Kings until everything settled.
Having been with Zhang Linchuan for so long, this person is still like a ball of ghostly thunder, unreal and extremely dangerous. How did he get lucky?
"Don't be nervous." Zhang Linchuan reassured her again, and then said: "Do you still remember the secret method I promised you? The secret method that allows you to safely enter the netherworld and find your deceased wife."
Lu Yan almost suspected that he had heard wrongly, and said with surprise and joy: "Of course I remember!"
"At this time, you still think of coming to see me, which makes me very happy and deserves a reward... We are old acquaintances!"
Zhang Linchuan said in a friendly tone, and with a flick of his finger, a wisp of lightning exploded in the air, revealing a thin black book, which flew into Lu Yan's palm.
"This secret method should be able to do it."
He smiled and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time. Just when I was sitting here, the final inspiration suddenly came to me."
If this was Zhang Linchuan's temporary idea in the short period of time, Lu Yan would not be surprised, because he was very aware of Zhang Linchuan's talent in Taoism.
The reason why Wusheng Sect has been able to develop so fast is that Zhang Linchuan personally wrote the Taoist scripture "Wu Sheng Jing" and created a set of "Wu Sheng Xuan Shu" personally.
But he believed even more that Zhang Linchuan had already completed this secret technique long ago and only threw it out today.
He took the black book and said sincerely, "Thank you for your trouble, Master!"
When he first joined the White Bone Path and later to Zhang Linchuan, wasn't it all to find his deceased wife's soul that had no idea where to go? He only knew that his wife's soul failed to enter the source pool, and he didn't know where it was suffering. Although it is said that death is like a lamp going out,
But he always had the obsession to meet again.
It’s just that he originally thought that Zhang Linchuan, like the White Bone Evil God, was just using that matter to hang him up and drive him to work for his life. He had no longer had hope for those people. From the day he betrayed the White Bone Evil God, all he thought about was relying on himself
Move forward with strength, and he has been working hard for this. The process of developing Wusheng Cult is also a process of him constantly strengthening himself...
Unexpectedly, when the Wusheng Sect was about to be completely destroyed, he waited for the secret technique promised by Zhang Linchuan.
This gave him some mixed feelings.
Zhang Linchuan, who was on the throne, just waved his hand indifferently: "We owe nothing to each other anymore."
Lu Yan bowed and saluted: "May the leader succeed in his great deeds, and may we meet again in the underworld."
"By the way." Zhang Linchuan said again: "Before you go to the Netherworld, remember to help me find the Moon Rabbit."
The current Wu Sheng Cult Yue Rabbit is the former White Bone Dao Rabbit Bone Masker, and is naturally an old acquaintance of Lu Yan.
He just said: "Okay, what instructions does the leader have for her?"
Zhang Linchuan said quietly: "Kill her for me."
Even though Lu Yan was such a person who had long seen through human nature and asked himself how cold-blooded and ruthless he was, he was still a little stunned.
Because Yue Tu is definitely the most loyal person to Zhang Linchuan in the entire Wu Sheng Sect!
Back then, he dared to take the initiative to attack and kill Long Mian for Zhang Linchuan, who had yet to show his strength. Those who betrayed him along with Zhang Linchuan all had their own desires. Only Yue Rabbit was purely loyal to Zhang Linchuan.
Now that Wusheng Sect is almost destroyed, she is the only one among the top management of Wusheng Sect who is still struggling to support Zhang Linchuan and maintain the last meager faith for Zhang Linchuan.
But Zhang Linchuan wanted to kill her...
"Why?" Lu Yan knew he shouldn't ask, but couldn't help but asked: "She is loyal to the leader."
"Yes, she is loyal to me." Zhang Linchuan looked at him indifferently and said: "This is the reason."
At this glance, Lu Yan did not dare to say anything else, he just lowered his head and said, "I accept your orders."
"Go." Zhang Linchuan waved his hand.
Lu Yan turned around and flew away, this time he really left.
He quickly flew out of the underground palace, eliminating traces along the way. Following the route he had already planned, he crashed into the rolling mountains. He flew close to the ground for a long time, and finally passed through the formation and landed in a valley.
This place is not beautiful, the scenery is very mediocre.
It was the hiding place he found in his early years.
He landed on the bank of a clear stream with gurgling water and looked at himself reflected in the water.
Only then did he finally let out the breath he had been holding in for a long time.
Phew~
The gray-white turbid air skims across the water lines and moves away.
He was a little stiff and took out an exquisite puppet from his arms.
He tapped the puppet's chest with his fingers, causing the puppet's chest to crack open and a living heart to jump out.
He calmly pressed the heart into his chest. From this, his hands were exchanged——
That was of course another heart that had just stopped in his body.
And this heart... has been manipulated beyond measure.
Zhang Linchuan is simply an expert at playing with people's hearts. A veteran like him can feel happy, sad, scared and frightened. He knows very well that in such a state, Zhang Linchuan has ten thousand ways to do something to him.
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Fortunately, his years of life were not in vain. Before going to the underground palace, he used such a secret technique to protect himself.
The human heart that Zhang Linchuan manipulates from beginning to end is just the human heart of the puppet. Even if there are any means, it should only be on the puppet...
Lu Yan's eyes turned white at this moment, and he carefully checked it again with his natural dark eyes, and then pressed the fragile heart into the doll's body.
Plop!
The doll was thrown into the stream.
He also used his hands and feet to struggle for a moment, like a drowning person.
Finally fell into silence.
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A swimming fish jumped out of the water, made an arch in the air, and then fell back down.
After a while, the ripples dispersed.
Reflected in the water are two figures, one fat and one thin.
In fact, I can't say that I am thin, my stature is relatively suitable.
It's just that when most people in this world stand next to the current Bowang Hou, it's hard not to look thin.
On the stone bridge in Bowanghou's mansion, now only Bowanghou and Wu'anhou stand next to each other.
"The emperor intends to help you settle the old affairs of Zhuang Guo and win your heart completely, so he deliberately left a button. But Jing Guo's response was very timely, and Zhuang Guo's response was even more decisive... We must now concentrate on killing the Wusheng Cult.
I really don’t have time to argue with Zhuang Guo. But just ignore them, it will be more difficult to become famous in the future."
Chongxuan Sheng held his hand on the stone railing and sighed: "Why are there no fools in this world?"
Jiang Wang said calmly: "The hatred between me and Zhuang Ting cannot be explained by words. It would be best if they can be ruined. If not, there is nothing. In the end, there is only life and death."
He once wore the mask of King Bian Cheng and participated in Yin Guan's revenge battle.
Youguo Zhao Cang and his son, despite their lack of strength, took advantage of all available factors.
Of course he would learn from it.
He never expected the limits of Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui, because he knew that this pair of wise kings and wise ministers could accomplish anything.
But no matter how wise Zhuang Gaoxian is and how wise minister Du Ruhui is, what reputation they have and how beloved they are, it will not affect his murderous intention.
All reputation, status, power, background, and interests cannot be a talisman for these two people.
In this matter, he has no overall view and no other considerations.
When all hatred comes to an end, there are only two words left: life and death.
Just like his answer to Ku Jie at the beginning - "If you kill me, I will die."
Chong Xuan Sheng is well aware of the difficulty of this matter. If it were just an enemy in the Dongzhen Realm, it would not be difficult to deal with it. It would be nothing more than pestering his uncle to kill him a few more times. But Zhuang Gaoxian, as the leader of a country, is also listed among the Taoists.
In the vassal system, what stands behind is the most powerful central empire in the world.
The herding country was engaged in heavy cutting, but it was still disgraced and suffered heavy losses.
How could Jingguo allow others to interfere with Zhuangguo?
Just like this time, Qi Guo only left a slight opening to vent his anger for his own prince, but Jing Guo immediately blocked it.
The attitude is not unyielding.
Zhuang Gao, Xian and Du Ruhui are both scheming people. It is really not easy to peel off their shells. Just look at Zhuang Guo's response this time. It is a combination of defeat and defeat. It is wonderful. Is there any flaw?
"This matter still needs to be discussed in the long term..." Chong Xuan Sheng sighed.
Of course Jiang Wang understood, he just frowned and said: "Speaking of which, why didn't Yong Guo take the opportunity to speak out this time? Zhuang Ting has been at odds with Bai Gu Dao since the time of Zhuang Chengqian, how could Yong Guo not notice it? Isn't it time to attack Zhuang Gao now?
Is this a good time to envy you and your ministers?”
Chong Xuansheng said: "Yes, it is indeed a good time. But it is a good time deliberately set aside by Zhuang Guo. Sometimes we should not only look at the opportunity, but also the situation. The Yong State now has the support of the Mohist family, and it is the Mohist family's participation in the national system.
The first attempt, Jing Guozhengchou had no excuse to suppress them."
"Now it is Jingguo who is protecting the Dao Kingdom below, blocking our Qiguo's opening to attack Zhuangguo. Once Yongguo gets involved in such a dispute, Jingguo will definitely hit him without leaving any room. That is Zhuangguo.
How can Yong Guo be allowed to comment on the game between great powers that the monarchs and ministers would like to see?"
"As for whether Zhuang Chengqian and the White Bone Dao are unclear... How many years have people been dead, and it's just a quarrel, how much harm can it do to Zhuang Guo? I believe Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui must have prepared a way to prove themselves. I specifically mentioned the relationship with Zhuang Chengqian.
The history of the struggle in the White Bone Path, just waiting for someone to take the bait..."
He glanced at Jiang Wang and said, "Han Xu is a very smart king and will never take the bait so easily."
Jiang Wang understood this euphemistic advice: "So you are stopping me from going to Yanyun Mountain because you think it is also a bait?"
Yanyun Mountain is between the Dan Kingdom and the Song Kingdom.
No one would have thought that Wu Sheng Cult built an underground palace there.
Yesterday, in that underground palace, more than ten powerful gods, together with more than two hundred extraordinary monks, were slaughtered by Zhang Linchuan. The scene was horrific.
This incident shocked the southwestern regions.
The news also reached Jiang Wang's ears.
Chongxuan Sheng said: "People seek tigers, and tigers seek people. As for Zhang Linchuan, we now have an absolute advantage, and there is no chance of the Wusheng Sect coming back. Son of a rich man, you can't sit down in the hall. You are already a prince of Da Qi, so you don't need to personally get involved."
risk."
Zhang Linchuan's sect has been destroyed, but Jiang Wang's career in Qi State still has more possibilities. Chong Xuansheng is right, time is on Jiang Wang's side.
But they all know that Zhang Linchuan's special numerology-like supernatural power may still be possessed by other people, so if they wait patiently, the future will not be so clear.
They know better... Although there are many Wusheng cultists in the world, most of them come for the reward. When the danger and reward are no longer so disparate, who else but Jiang Wang has the determination to kill Zhang Linchuan?
Besides Jiang Wang, who single-handedly destroyed the Wu Sheng Cult, who else can arouse Zhang Linchuan, who is currently hiding in Tibet... his greatest murderous intention?
If Jiang Wang had been hiding in Linzi and only offered rewards to drive people away, he would have the world searching for and killing Wusheng Cult. The battle at Yanyun Mountain might have been Zhang Linchuan's last move.
And it is impossible for him to bring a real person with him, or have an extremely powerful person watch him all the time. Firstly, no one has that spare time, and secondly, if there is no hope of killing him, Zhang Linchuan will never show his face.
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Jiang Wang's trip was both fish and bait. When he left Qi State, he and Zhang Linchuan were fishing with each other.
Of course Jiang Wang understands this.
But he looked at Zhong Xuansheng quietly for a while, and just said: "You will sit in the mansion, collect information from all parties, and coordinate the encirclement and suppression. If there is anything, I will contact you through Taixu Illusion Realm."
With his hand on the long sword, he turned around and walked away from the stone bridge.
"The world is too big. If I miss this time, I don't know when I will find him again. I never want to... give him a chance again."
"If this is the bait Zhang Linchuan prepared for me, then let's see how sharp the hook is, how hard the fishing rod is, and... whether he has the same determination as me after being knocked down from the level of a true god!"
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