After the ascetic was taken away, Zhao Huaizhong returned to the temporary study room of the hotel, took out a bamboo slip and looked at it carefully.
Zou Yan sent his disciple Yue Qing to the Qin Dynasty and brought with him a complete set of classics on Yin and Yang and the Five Virtues.
Among them are six volumes of Yin and Yang techniques written by Zou Yan, which are in the hands of Zhao Huaizhong.
On a summer night, the breeze blows.
Zhao Huaizhong sat on a chair, holding a scroll with one hand, and opened his collar, revealing his strong collarbone and a little chest muscle. With his free hand, he would occasionally reach out to pick up a plate of snacks on the table, eating and reading.
He was fascinated by what he saw, and sometimes he would follow the contents in the bamboo slips to move the energy in his body and develop the art of yin and yang.
Zou Yan's yin-yang and five-element system combines the ancient mathematical thinking with the five-element theory, and further develops it to try to explain the causes of natural phenomena and their changing laws. It is a huge work.
The book explains the cycle of heaven and the changes in the five elements, and points out that all things are inseparable from yin and yang.
According to Zou Yan's description, Zhao Huaizhong mobilized the power of heaven and earth, and saw the two qi of yin and yang appear in his hand, which means heaven and earth, corresponding to day and night, and then yin and yang are intertwined to create the five elements.
All the changes and ups and downs are wonderful and wonderful.
By the time Zhao Huaizhong put down the ancient scroll in his hand, it was already past Haishi.
He sat there and pondered for a moment before walking to the bed and falling asleep peacefully.
The next day, Zhao Huaizhong went to Zhengguo Canal again to inspect the progress.
At noon, Mu Qingkong and Xia Xin rushed over to report:
"The penance that was detained yesterday was taken away from the prison in the south of Jingyang County while the prince was out of town for inspection."
"All the twelve jailers responsible for guarding the prison were killed, and those who spread the essence of Jishi Sect in the city also disappeared, and there was no one left."
The Jingyang County mansion where Zhao Huaizhong lived was not large and was not suitable for torture and interrogation.
After catching Ku Xing yesterday, Xin Wu escorted him to the nearby prison in Jingyang County.
This morning, Jingyang County issued an official document requesting the arrest of members of the Jishi Sect who are spreading their teachings within the territory.
However, as the morning passed, the situation changed. Not only did someone rob the prison, but they also killed the jailer.
Openly defying Qin's laws is tantamount to rebellion.
When Zhao Huaizhong received the news, he was feeding blackbirds on the embankment on one side of Zhengguo Canal.
This guy had grown into a huge creature. His body fell into the ditch, and his head was just level with Zhao Huaizhong on the embankment.
Zhao Huaizhong was not surprised when he heard the news and said calmly: "Has the dead jailer been arranged in advance?"
"Yes, they were replaced with death row prisoners in advance, and the memory of the death row prisoners was instilled using the art of vertical and horizontal techniques, making them think that they were real jailers with no flaws." Xia Xin said.
In fact, Zhao Huaizhong went out for inspection in the morning and took away everyone from Ye Yu Mansion in order to create opportunities for the people of Ji Shi Sect to rescue Ku Qing.
Zhao Huaizhong said calmly: "These evil heretics seem to have changed their ways.
After the ascetic entered the Qin Dynasty, he relied on helping the weak to hide himself. Compared with the evil sects that broke into the Qin before, he seemed to have become smarter."
Mu Qingkong said: "Xu Shijun was promoted to a saint in public and killed the evil master Yin Mu, which made these sects and sects fearful, so they changed their methods and knew how to hide their identities.
It's a pity that the prince saw through his hiding."
Zhao Huaizhong shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid this matter is not simple. There are some parts that I haven't figured out yet."
Mu Qingkong said: "Pei Yu has followed up with Ku Xing and others who escaped. It shouldn't take long for the results to come out."
"In which direction did they escape?"
"After they escaped from prison, they changed their appearance and fled to the border between Wei and Zhao." Mu Qingkong said.
Zhao Huaizhong: "If the other party escapes from Qin and Pei Yu pursues him into other countries, the situation may get out of control. You also set out as Pei Yu's support."
"No!" Mu Qingkong then left with Xia Xin who came with him.
"Why did the prince arrest and let people go? If he could ask the person behind the scenes using the skill of vertical and horizontal, wouldn't it be nice to go straight to their hiding place?" Xia Xin glanced at Mu Qingkong and said.
Mu Qingkong muttered: "You have spent all your energy on Dongyang Tower, and your brain power has also been poured out.
The inquiry of Zonghengshu is not omnipotent.
The prince said that if these evil ways are always allowed to wreak havoc in the Qin Kingdom, we will always be on the defensive and be too passive, so this time we let out the net to see how many fish we can bring in.
Letting the other party escape is not only about pulling out the power behind them.
It can also avoid taking action in our Daqin territory and entering the opponent's hiding place."
Xia Xin said oh, with a look of understanding on her face.
Mu Qingkong looked at Xia Xin with some doubts, feeling something was wrong.
Hasn't this guy been so stupid before, asking questions about everything?
The two men immediately ordered their troops and horses, chased after Pei Yu, and galloped away.
That night, Zhao Huaizhong returned to Jingyang County, and everything was as usual.
On the same night, Xu Xing, who escaped from Jingyang, and the three companions who rescued him from prison finally arrived at the border of Zhao after a day of running.
After leaving Qin territory, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Ascetic, what should we do now?"
After the four of them entered the Kingdom of Zhao, they were surrounded by wilderness, wind and grass, and quite eerie.
The moon in the sky is like water, and the shadows of trees on the ground are dancing.
Among the four, the leader is the ascetic, and the other three have different appearances.
Of course, they had gone through a certain disguise at this time and looked like ordinary hunters, which was different from their original appearance.
"If I hadn't made arrangements in advance this time and got the message from my senior brother and came to the rescue in time, I'm afraid that my senior brother would have fallen into the hands of the Qin people and it would be difficult to escape." The speaker was in his forties, thin and with a bitter look on his face.
Deep, square face.
"I was just about to thank my three junior brothers for saving me."
Ascetic said: "I carried a treasure that concealed my aura with me. Unexpectedly, it was discovered by the Crown Prince of Qin. It is a pity that I failed to get his new appointment."
Another person said with some worry: "We were ordered to contact Qin Chu but failed. I wonder if we will be punished."
Xi Xing changed the topic and asked: "Have those sects that are trying to unite to deal with the Qin people already started to take action?"
"Um."
The short man who spoke first replied: "Their actions are just in the past few days. Let's hide in the dark and see how the Qin people respond.
The people of Qin did not listen to advice, so they deserved this disaster."
Wu Xing shook his head slightly: "There are many strange people and strangers in Ye Yu Mansion, and Chu Qin is a newly promoted saint. It is still unpredictable who will win and who will lose.
I’ll wait until I leave here first.”
Where they were, there was a border town of Siyang in the Zhao Kingdom a hundred miles ahead.
That's their destination.
"After we leave, what will happen to the other congregants in Jingyang?"
"Senior brother, don't worry, they will also hide themselves. It will not be easy for the Qin people to find them."
While the few people were communicating, they kept walking, and after dawn, they arrived at Siyang, the border town of Zhao.
They entered the city calmly as they had prepared in advance, and finally entered a house in the south of the city.
And just after the four of them entered the mansion, on a street a hundred meters away from them, Pei Yu, who had also changed his appearance, looked at the mansion where Shu Xing and others had entered from a distance.
Until that night, it was completely dark, and the four ascetics never came out again.
At this time, in the mansion, they came to a room in the backyard.
In the room, sat an old man who was nearly sixty years old, wearing a brown wide-sleeved robe, with wide threads wrapping around the cuffs and ankles.
He sat there with an imposing manner, staring at the four ascetics.
"We have met the Pope." The four of them bowed together.
"Is your contact with the Crown Prince of Qin not going well?" the old man sitting in the first place asked.
"Yes, even though I was prepared in advance, my Dharmakaya technique still failed to hide from the Crown Prince of Qin, and he saw through it. But he didn't know that we came from the Kuzhou Sect, and I used it from the border area of the Qi people, which was not established in Xing Dynasty.
Jishijiao identity." Shu Xing said.
The old man called the Pope hummed.
At this moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked outside the room with sharp eyes: "Who?"
Pei Yu's figure appeared from the wall like a ghost, overlooking the people in the room: "My hearing is very keen, but it is a pity that I am blind and want to contact me, the Crown Prince of Qin.
It turns out that the one hiding behind it is your Kuzhou Cult."
In the room, the old man stood up slowly, his robes swaying automatically without the wind:
"This is not your Qin people's place. How can the Great Qin Ye Yufu help me, the Kuzhou Sect?"
Pei Yu stood upright on the wall and said: "Kuzhou Sect Pope Lu Fu, you are also a big fish, you can barely interact with the prince."
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Korean border city, Fengyi.
In a dark room, there were people conspiring and talking at this time.
"...After the Kuzhou Cult members showed up, as expected, they were discovered by the Crown Prince of Qin and then captured.
The bait we sent out was swallowed by Qin Chu, and now his Ye Yufu tribe, following the Kuzhou Cult people, have entered the Zhao territory."
"We pushed the Kuzhou Cult out as bait this time. If we were discovered, we might be in a lot of trouble!"
"They won't find out. We invited the Kuzhou Cult to work together, but they refused. Instead, they wanted to report us to the prince of Qin. If we failed to sell the Qin people well, we were hunted down after our identity was discovered. Who can blame us?
What we did was just taking advantage of the situation and doing whatever was convenient for us. If we want to blame them, we can only blame them for being stupid."
Two men's voices, one deep and one old, sounded one after another.
Their faces were a little blurry in the unlit room, but it could still be seen that one of them was the deputy sect master of Chuantian Dao who had appeared at the gate of Yinnu Sect before. He had deep-set eyebrows and was dressed in brown clothes.
The other person has a fair face, a high nose, thin lips, and a feminine temperament. He is actually Zhao Yan, the son of Pingyuan Lord of Zhao State.
There was also a voluptuous woman in a blue dress in the house. She was Yao Qian, the female sect second only to the new Yin Mother Xia Si.
"While Zhao Huaizhong and the people in Ye Yufu were attracted by the Kuzhou Cult, they started fighting. Have we started taking action?" Zhao Yan asked.
"At this time, it should be in progress." The deputy sect leader who spreads the way of heaven said.
Zhao Yan was a little excited: "Okay, this time we will definitely break the Qin people's luck."
The deputy sect leader of Chuan Tiandao and Yao Qian looked at each other. They both glanced at Zhao Yan, and a smile flashed across their lips.
Then the three of them took out several artifacts together, including two palm-sized ancient stone platforms, on which a sinister shadow appeared at the same time.
There was also a dazzling scarlet coffin, a small coffin less than five inches, and a broken stone bowl.
After these four things appeared, they floated in the sky, and a cold aura filled the air.
"It's a pity that there are only three Yin Cao from all over the world. Butian's lineage can't escape from the world and there is no trace at all. There is still one Yin Cao who fell into the hands of Zhao Huaizhong."
"As long as one Yincao can be opened smoothly, it will be enough for the Qin people to tolerate." Zhao Yan said solemnly.
"Young Master is responsible for the sacrifices. How are the preparations going?" Deputy Sect Master Chuantian asked.
Zhao Yan smiled grimly and said, "Of course I'm ready. Why do you think I asked you to meet here?"