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Chapter 253 Little junior sister is in danger?

Ever since Ouyang Rong spoke his real name for the first time, he established a connection with "Jiang Zuo".

I noticed that Ding Jian had a huge demand for spiritual energy.

No wonder most of the tripod swords cannot be owned by individuals.

I heard that the "Emperor Wen" in the hands of the Great Zhou court was served by a large group of people behind it. It was supported by a whole system, and even the younger sister once joked that it was "Emperor Wen of Iron Fighting, the Sword Holder of Flowing Water" .

He found that from the birth of the first tripod sword in the Qin Dynasty to the present, after so much time and exploration, Qi practitioners in the world and the world seem to have reached a consensus.

If one wants to go far, the sword-wielder must be backed by top forces, just like Wei Shaoxuan's Wei Palace.

Ouyang Rong vaguely guessed that this was probably also the reason why the old swordsmith wanted to transfer Ah Qing, who was a vigorous person, together with the "craftsman", to Zong Yunmeng Jianze in the hidden world.

Because it takes a huge amount of resources to cultivate a sword-wielding person, it is refreshing to kill people with a sword, but it is not unusual to use the qi-replenishing things needed to quickly restore the aura combat power after using the tripod sword. Qi practitioners can easily squander it.

Moreover, the road of the sword-wielding person may not be able to go smoothly. After all, it is a myth, and the sword formula is hard to find, and it is difficult to understand the true meaning. The bottleneck of each rank is like a gap.

Even for a cultivating seed like Junior Sister, if she chooses the wrong Dao vein, blinds her eyes with a leaf, and embarks on the Mythical Extinct Vein, but finds it difficult to understand the true meaning of the Cauldron Sword, and gets stuck at the bottleneck, that is a wasteful talent.

But even so, there are Liu Zi'an, Liu Zilin and others who have followed suit, moths to the flames, not hesitating to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, in an attempt to be promoted to the sword bearer.

Because of the scarcity of Jue Mai, it represents an important bargaining chip, and it is easy to grasp the initiative and join any force.

Don't you see, the Donglin Temple in the Lotus Pagoda League only provides one sword holder, and can have the opportunity to cooperate with Yunmeng Jianze and the swordsmith family on an equal footing, although the game collapsed later.

And who doesn't yearn to touch mythology?

Especially the bottom of the world.

This is the case in every era. The competition for precious resources at the bottom has always been cruel, commonly known as involution.

Putting aside the insidiousness and cunning, as long as the three brothers of the Liu family can break free from the chessboard of Longcheng County and get the two admission tickets of "Sword Holder" and "Ding Sword", after they go out, where will they go?
It's a pity that they met a more embarrassing old graduate student.

For these, a rich and noble girl like Xie Lingjiang can't understand it, because Qiwang with five surnames and father's great Confucian background have naturally given her a higher platform and a wider vision.

Let him see the pros and cons of the sword-wielder more clearly and less enviously, but it is difficult to understand all the crazy things the three brothers of the Liu family have done for a tripod sword.

But this also means that this noble lady of the Xie family has a more romantic and idealistic way of looking at things, so she really likes to eat the big cakes that a big brother likes to draw, and she is full of them all...

Closer to home.

At this moment on the Dagu Mountain, Ouyang Rong was in a daze, watching the scene of the broken wing canal under the mountain turning decay into magic and subduing the torrential flood.

In his ears, the cheers of thousands of people in the entire Dagu Mountain, as well as the sound of wooden fish that soared hundreds of thousands of meritorious deeds, made him temporarily deaf and tinnitus.

"Craftsmanship" naturally appeared, close to Ouyang Rong, surrounded by closeness.

Ouyang Rong's eyes were lavender, and he stretched out his hand slowly, touching a trembling "arc" in front of him with his fingertips.

A hazy blue light stained his nails.

It's cold and hot.

At the moment when he came into close contact with the tripod sword entity for the first time, Ouyang Rong suddenly realized that those above who were very restrictive about the tripod sword and the sword holders, relying heavily on the road supported by the powerful forces behind them, seemed to be...unable for this "craftsmanship" question.

The old swordsmith gathered the great achievements of his predecessors, and worked so hard to forge this new tripod sword. It seems to be a little different, and it is no longer exclusive to princes, generals, and aristocratic clans.

After the "arc" in the air was touched by Ouyang Rong, the clear blue sword light was dyed a little purple by a familiar purple that seemed to appear out of thin air.

Feed it some.

Merit deducted one.

Ouyang Rong felt the "arc" body at his fingertips, and trembled more and more, as if... eager to try.

"Do you eat this too..." he murmured, with a glimpse of the true meaning: "A mortal body casts a myth?"

"What did you say?" Li Bao'er suddenly turned around.

"Nothing." Ouyang Rong shook his head and withdrew his fingers.

After observing the smooth flood discharge of Zheyi Canal together outside the small courtyard, Ouyang Rong briefly touched the "craftsmanship" and put it away again. He suppressed the strange lavender in his eyes, and immediately turned to look for the little junior sister, Li Bao'er Also followed up.

The two left Beitianji Nursing Home together.

Go to Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall.

Along the way, Ouyang Rong condensed his brows, pondering over the sentence that came to his mind just now.

"Craftsmanship" is newly born today. The true meaning and unique knowledge of the tripod sword are not like the "poor scholar", which has been summed up by the legendary sword master.

So far, he has been at the forefront in a daze, and can only fumble by himself.

Just now "Jiangzuo" reacted to Ziwu's accumulated merits, which was a major discovery.

There is someone beside me at the moment, so I can't fully verify it for the time being... Ouyang Rong remained calm.

In addition, Ouyang Rong was not idle, taking advantage of the clear and crisp sound of wooden fish in his ears gradually weakening, he took a break from the road and took a look at the Gongde Pagoda.

Before today, the merits and virtues were sufficient, nearly [-].

But after exchanging the blessings of "Return to Come", he consumed several blessings in succession on the mask of the mirage beast, and there were only more than [-] merit points left.

But right now, the water conservancy construction of Zheyi Canal that Ouyang Rong has vigorously promoted for several months has saved many houses and thousands of people on the mountains in Longcheng County, which is another great merit.

[Merit: Eleven thousand 310 one]

Right above the little wooden fish who was exhausted from being slapped by "Papa Papa" today, a line of still green-gold fonts fell into Ouyang Rong's eyes brightly.

"Deducting the original 3000 and [-] yuan, the merits have increased by about [-]."

Ouyang Rong understood it in his heart, left the merit tower, and opened his eyes.

After a while, Ouyang Rong and Li Bao'er came to the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall.

There was no one in the hall.

The two walked out of the main hall. On the square, Ouyang Rong knelt down, gently wiped the bloody footprints on the floor tiles with his fingers, and looked around for signs of fighting in the square.

"Sister Xie, where did you go?" Li Bao'er looked around.

"Not right."

Ouyang Rong twisted the blood mud with his fingers and raised his head:

"Junior Junior Sister joined forces with an unknown Yue girl to drive Liu Fu and the others back. Logically, after Junior Junior Sister escaped danger, if nothing happened, she should come to look for you and Uncle Li, but we walked all the way, but we didn't meet anyone... Where did little junior sister go?"

Li Zou'er glanced sideways at someone and said, "Is there a possibility that she is looking for you?"

Ouyang Rong didn't answer, thinking to himself that he knew little junior sister better.

He got up suddenly, and pointed around the corpses of black-clothed swordsmen scattered all over the square:
"The wounds are all throat-sealing sword wounds. They should all be from the hands of my junior sister, but there are bloodstains on the floor tiles. It is obvious that the back of the corpse has been moved."

Ouyang Rong frowned and looked around, "But my junior sister has a cleanliness habit and won't move these corpses."

Li Bao'er nodded, and said softly: "Right now, there are two kinds of people who can carry corpses, the monks in the temple, and the people from your county government. They found the place in a mess and came to take care of it?"

Ouyang Rong nodded, then shook his head:
"But why don't you clean it up and leave it here? Judging by the blood stains and orderliness, these corpses are only half moved, and they left."

Li Bao'er pondered for a while, and said in a crisp voice:
"You mean, the temple monks or petty officials were interrupted by outsiders and foreign affairs? But Wei Shaoxuan and Liu Fu were executed, and other accomplices were tricked by you to go down the mountain. What danger can there be now?"

Ouyang Rong remained silent, and suddenly took out a deer-shaped jade ring full of cracks from his sleeve.

He followed the gourd to draw a ladle, imitating the method that his younger junior sister observed when using it last time, and stimulated some of the aura that had just recovered in his dantian, and poured it into the deer-shaped jade ring.

If he guessed correctly, this jade ring should come from the uncle of the academy that the junior sister had been looking for. As for why it fell into Wei Shaoxuan's hands, and it was full of cracks, do you still have to guess?

The jade body slowly boiled hot.

"Ok?"

Ouyang Rong turned his head sharply and looked at a magnificent palace hundreds of feet away to the southeast.

There is only a dense bamboo forest between this main hall and the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall where Ouyang Rong is currently located, and the two halls are neighbors to each other.

"That's... the Palace of Sutra Copying?" Ouyang Rong asked hesitantly.

He vaguely remembered that when he had breakfast, he was dragged away by Xiufa because of the abnormal sound of the Buddha statue in this hall.

"That's right, it's the Sutra Copying Hall." Li Bao'er said casually, "Wei Shaoxuan and the others occupied this hall before, because it was separated from the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall, they found us..."

Ouyang Rong remained silent, stretched his hand into his bosom, took out a Sanskrit Buddhist scripture and glanced at it.

This was found in the fragments of Wei Shaoxuan's body.

As he expected, this Buddhist scripture was not the same as the Sanskrit Buddhist scripture that the old swordsmith gave Liu Zian. Obviously, he was trying to fool the two of them.

But Wei Shaoxuan had previously regarded it as the real poor swordsmanship, so thinking about it, it was a Buddhist scripture translated by someone in this scripture copying hall, so it was natural...

"What's the matter, where does the psychic jade ring of the academy point to?"

Seeing the young county magistrate next to him, holding the jade ring tightly in one hand, and holding the blood-stained Buddhist scriptures in the other, frowning and looking sideways at the scripture copying hall in front of him, the jade ring in his hand emits a faint light.

Li Bao'er intelligently guessed, "Where is sister Xie's jade ring?"

Ouyang Rong glanced at her, pursed his lips and agreed.

"Then what are you waiting for?" Li Baoer wanted to shout as he walked towards him.

After a while, she was grabbed by the wrist again and pulled back vigorously. She couldn't help spinning around and almost fell down.

"You..." The little girl with plum blossom makeup frowned, and when she stabilized her figure, she saw that Ouyang Rong didn't look at her, her eyes were fixed on the silent hall behind the bamboo forest in front of her, and she remained silent.

"What's wrong?" Li Bao'er asked calmly, "You suspect that she's not here?"

After a pause, she lowered her voice and cleared her voice:
"Do you think there is a trap? But it doesn't make sense. If it's Wei Shaoxuan's accomplice, how would they know that this jade ring is in your hands? Or are they just waiting for a rabbit?"

Ouyang Rong felt the faintly pointed position of the jade ring in his hand, and pondered for a moment: "The two jades of the qi practitioners in the academy are very close to each other, and they can sense the nearby directions, but my junior sister didn't respond."

Li Bao'er pondered: "Is that so, is it possible..."

"It's possible, very likely."

Ouyang Rong suddenly interrupted Li Baoer's words, he turned and walked in the opposite direction, towards the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall:
"Let's go, look for it and find out."

"What are you looking for?"

Li Baoer curiously followed Ouyang Rong's footsteps, and they walked around the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall together, pushing the doors from time to time, especially the huts in some corners at the back of the hall, and Ouyang Rong patiently inspected them.

unmanned.

Ouyang Rong turned around, took Bao'er away and searched around the woods around the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall.

No one.

After a while, Ouyang Rong stopped, tilted his head, and looked at a lonely Buddhist pagoda not far from the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall.

He continued to walk away from Bao'er, but he didn't immediately walk towards the scripture-copying hall that was sensed by Yuhuan.

Li Bao'er's eyes were full of doubts, but she followed quietly.

"Squeak--!"

The door of the pagoda slowly opened.

The sun shines in, showing the figure of the whole place.

Li Baoer glared slightly, and blurted out: "Who did this?"

On the ground inside the pagoda, there is a place of dead monks.

Ouyang Rong, who had been silent all this time, let out a long breath, immediately frowned, and looked back at the scripture copying hall in the distance.

"How do you know that someone fainted here?"

Li Bao'er looked at Ouyang Rong with an unbelievable look.

Ouyang Rong squatted down, checked the unconsciousness of the monks, and sighed:

"Once you are born and you are familiar with it, you will naturally have experience."

Previously in Xiaogu Mountain, he and Ah Qing led a team of civilians up the mountain with jiaoyou. It was the same way. They were taken care of by a terrifying figure, and that person seemed to be quite afraid of slaughtering civilians.

So they knocked out a pair of Minyong one after another, threw them behind the forest, sealed Ouyang Rong and Ah Qing's caves, and took them to the Jiazi Sword Stove...

"Qiu Shenji has been here, and there are not only junior sisters in the scripture copying hall." He nodded.

The thoughtfulness of the young county magistrate in front of her made Li Zong'er admire her, but she saw from the corner of her eye that his hands under the sleeves were tightly clenched at some point, and the palms seemed to be soaked in sweat.

"So your previous speculation was that these monks were cleaning up the corpses outside the temple, but they were all knocked out by the sudden arrival of Qiu Shenji and thrown here?"

Li Zou'er was thoughtful:
"So this Qiu Shenji should have come to look for Wei Shaoxuan, but he met Sister Xie?"

Ouyang Rong nodded solemnly.

"Then thank you, sister, now..."

"Go." Ouyang Rong said suddenly.

Turning around to leave the pagoda, he and Li Bao'er tacitly circled around the scripture-copying hall, and came to a distant roof facing the gate of the scripture-copying hall, with a good view.

The two climbed onto the roof and watched from a distance.

I saw that the scripture-copying hall in front had collapsed for less than half, and the door of the hall fell to the ground, revealing the general scene inside the hall.

Take a closer look.

Sure enough, three familiar figures could be vaguely seen.

The girl in red, the old monk in cassock, and...

A man in sackcloth.

The latter was covered in blood, his sackcloth was torn, and he had a sword wound on his exposed chest. It looked like he had escaped from the fierce battle in Xiaogushan in a hurry, and he seemed to be seriously injured.

But Xie Lingjiang and Master Shandao who were standing opposite each other were not much better.

Xie Lingjiang stood in front of Master Shandao, his figure remained motionless, and a jade ring around his waist gleamed with vermilion light from time to time.

But she didn't seem to be able to pull out her hand, and she didn't respond.

As for the unknown Yue girl that Ouyang Rong had heard about from Liu Fu before, he did not see her in the hall, and his whereabouts were unknown.

Observed for a while.

Ouyang Rong frowned and noticed that there seemed to be something between the two junior sisters and Qiu Shenji.

Qiu Shenji stopped two feet in front of them, wandering slowly, like a tiger and wolf besieging their prey, but they didn't take half a step forward.

It seems that there is a thunder pool placed horizontally.

In the scripture copying hall, the positions and situations of the two parties were more complicated than Ouyang Rong imagined.

On the roof hundreds of meters away, Ouyang Rong watched silently for a while, lowered his head, and took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms.

He opened the seal, poured the last qi invigorating pill into the palm of his hand, and swallowed it calmly.

Li Bao'er frowned, vaguely guessing what he was going to do.

"What are you doing?" she asked knowingly.

Ouyang Rong took out a mask, jumped off the roof, and said without looking back, "Little Junior Sister can't hold on anymore."

Li Baoer asked back:
"This Qiu Shenji is a top-rank Qi trainer, is he as easy to deceive as Liu Fu?"

"No."

She stated: "He should be very familiar with Wei Shaoxuan."

"Yes."

She said again: "Based on his knowledge, he should be able to understand the sword-clothing gesture of the 'poor man'."

"rational."

"Then isn't this very risky?" She nodded helplessly, and asked, "How do you spread the sword? How do you survive fifteen breaths...or even more?"

"You can try." He shook his head stubbornly, and replied, "Cultivate plank roads in the open, and store in the dark."

Li Bao'er was silent, looking at Sister Xie's precarious sword in the hall in the distance, she pursed her lips and jumped down lightly.

The little girl with plum blossom makeup and long sleeves followed behind the young county magistrate, under the tulle, with a pretty face:

"Then can you not grab my hand or hold my waist this time?"

Ouyang Rong calmly replied: "Yes, but this time, let's change positions."

"Okay...wait." Li Bao'er tilted her head in doubt: "What do you mean?"

"You caught me."

"...??"

Ouyang Lianghan, you are getting more and more outrageous...

Close to the scripture copying hall.

Ouyang Rong threw a moonlight long sword back, and Li Bao'er caught it tacitly.

……

(End of this chapter)