Zhutian: My skills are not serious

The four members of the Xu family were all stunned. Xu Qian'an asked in confusion: "Master? What do you mean by this?"

"The Taoist Jinlian just sent a message for help. The head of the Earth Sect, Heilian, has sent Huanglian, Chilian, and Chenglian to the Yue Clan Villa in Jianzhou to snatch the nine-colored lotus from Bailian. You should take the red-armored puppet and Yeji with him to Jianzhou."

"If I go to Jianzhou, what about the situation in the North?"

"I'll check for you."

"But……"

Before the word "but" was uttered, Xu Qian'an, Xu Lingyue, Li Ru, and Xu Pingzhi were all stunned, because the monk turned his head, and when he turned back, his face looked like Xu Yinluo, but without hair, and was still bald.

"This...disguise technique?"

"Not just a disguise."

Chu Pingsheng's voice also changed, and it sounded about 90% like a silver gong.

"You can actually... do oral skills?"

Xu Qian'an's face was filled with shock. It turned out that the monk had mastered both of the two magical skills in martial arts novels!
"good."

Chu Pingsheng turned his head again and his face returned to its original state.

Li Ru walked over, held his face, rubbed it, and pinched it: "It's amazing."

"Don't make trouble, let's get down to business."

He pushed away the dirty hands that were trying to take advantage of him.

"In addition to the news that Black Lotus coveted the Nine-Colored Lotus, Taoist Jinlian also tracked down a piece of intelligence. After Black Lotus's clone left the capital, he took Red Lotus, Orange Lotus, Yellow Lotus, Green Lotus, and Blue Lotus to the Three Flower Temple in Leizhou. He lost two Earth Sect elders, Blue Lotus and Green Lotus, and successfully rescued the left arm of King Shura. Now Black Lotus holds both arms of King Shura, and Chuzhou has something he urgently needs, so his real body will most likely go to Chuzhou. In addition to other enemies, even with the protection of the Red Armor Puppet, it is too dangerous for you to go north this time."

"The Black Lotus's main body is going to Chuzhou, so the clone will go to Jianzhou?"

"more or less."

"Okay, I'll go to Jianzhou with Taoist Jinlian."

"They will be waiting for you at Anji Hall at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow."

Xu Qian'an nodded: "Master, what exactly is Black Lotus planning? Could it be that Chuzhou's thing is more important than the Nine-Colored Lotus?"

"It's no good for you to know about this."

"Oh."

Xu Qian'an was well aware of the principle that an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. The monk did not allow him to ask, so he shut his mouth obediently.

"Okay, let's get ready."

After Chu Pingsheng finished speaking, he was about to go back to practice martial arts when a person walked into the yard from outside. They looked up and found that it was Guan Gangzi, the palace maid of Shaoyin who had not been seen for a long time and was said to have been under house arrest by Concubine Chen.

"Consecration... Master."

She blushed and called out just four words, each word getting smaller and smaller.

This is no wonder, as she and Lin'an lost their virginity to him together in Linhu Cottage.

"How did you come?"

"Princess Lin'an wrote you a letter."

As she said this, she ran up to him in small steps, took out a letter from her bosom, stuffed it into his hand, then turned and ran away.

Xu Lingyue looked puzzled: "It's just delivering a letter, why is your face as red as a monkey's butt?"

After saying that, she stared into his eyes, as if trying to see something from the changes in his expression.

"There will be a fierce battle in the north. I have to practice."

Chu Pingsheng ignored her gaze, quickly took the letter and ran away.

……

The next day, Xu Qian'an disguised himself as an inconspicuous old farmer and left the city. He released Ye Ji from the jade mirror outside Anji Pavilion and went to Jianzhou Yuezhi Villa with Chu Yuanzhen, Taoist Jinlian and Monk Hengyuan.

On the other hand, Chu Pingsheng disguised himself as Xu Qian'an, and sailed north with General Chu Xianglong of King Zhenbei, Minister of Justice Sun Min and others to Chuzhou to investigate the bloody massacre of three thousand miles.

He read the letter from Lin'an. There was nothing important in it. It just told him that Yuan Jing had officially sent an edict to Shaoyin Palace, asking her to prepare for marriage. Concubine Chen had asked a sorcerer from the Imperial Observatory to look at the date and set an auspicious day three months later for them to get married. She also said that Gangzi must not be treated badly and must be brought along with the female officials when he married.

Chu Pingsheng calculated that the day when Yuan Jing would announce to the world that he would marry a fairy concubine would be in two months, which was quite close.

"Xu Qian'an, let me tell you, even though you have the Emperor's order, don't expect me to obey you in everything. You have your way of investigating the bloody massacre of 3,000 miles, and I have mine. We should keep to ourselves."

The long sails face the wind and the blue waves surge.

Nangong Qianrou was wearing a green dress, leaning against the side of the boat with her arms folded across her chest, gazing into the distance at the long embankment of weeping willows in the night.

"..."

Chu Pingsheng didn't say anything, still thinking about the trip to the north. Because he was afraid of exposing his identity, he didn't bring Zhu Guangxiao and Song Tingfeng. After all, these two people hang out with Xu Qian'an every day, and they know his personality, way of speaking, and behavioral characteristics very well. If he performs poorly in some aspects, it would be a troublesome to be suspected and questioned. If it was Nangong Qianrou, there would be fewer concerns.

"Xu Qian'an, I'm talking to you."

Seeing that he didn't answer, Nangong Qianrou turned back and glared at him, with a hint of annoyance mixed in with her heroic spirit.

She has always looked down on Xu Qian'an, who always boasted of being her brother-in-law and a monk who was consecrating monks. He was a mere sixth-rank warrior who showed off his power and acted like an official in front of her, a fourth-rank official. If Duke Wei had not asked her to restrain herself and put the overall situation first, she would have retaliated with her fists and taught him a lesson.

"say what?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "It is said that the great river flows eastward, and the waves wash away all heroes, or that you are a woman dressed as a man, with a unique charm that is so heroic that it is difficult to tell whether it is male or female? It makes people want to conquer you?"

Nangong Qianrou blinked three times before she realized that the little silver gong in front of her was actually teasing her. There was originally three points of anger between her brows, but now it turned into nine points.

"You should know that I hate it most when people treat me as a woman."

"You hate me, but you can't change the fact that I'm a woman. But I have a plan."

Chu Pingsheng didn't care about her change of expression and continued, "You have also seen what Master Kaiguang did to Zhu Chengzhu. If you really don't want to be a woman, you might as well ask him to help you change your body. In this way, you can be considered a man inside and out."

"Xu! Qi! An! I'll kill you, you bastard!"

Nangong Qianrou was humiliated and furious. She punched him in the face with her right fist. The energy was like the wind splitting the wind, making a humming sound, which showed that she was really angry.

Chu Pingsheng flicked his sleeve to break her fist, then slightly turned his head to avoid the sharp edge, and took off the gilded waist badge that Yuan Jing gave to Xu Qian'an to enter and leave the palace: "Do you want to commit a crime of insubordination?"

Meeting the emperor was like meeting an emperor. Nangong Qianrou did not dare to be negligent. She suppressed her anger, retracted her fist, stepped back, and squeezed out two words from between her teeth.

"Don't dare."

"You'd better not dare."

Chu Pingsheng suddenly grabbed the hand of a masked maid who was passing by the two of them and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Ouch, you hurt me."

Not only the special envoys and night watchmen of the three ministries lived on this ship, but also Chu Xianglong and his entourage. In addition to meeting the emperor to seek help, Chu Xianglong also had the task of escorting the princess to the north.

The maids around the princess were dressed like this, because there were more men than women on the same boat, and covering their faces with scarves could reduce unnecessary trouble.

"I dropped my purse, my purse!"

The maid pointed at a silver-gray cloth bag at his feet and said reluctantly.

Chu Pingsheng looked down and saw a purse lying in the gap between the planks. He then let go of his hand, bent down and picked it up, and weighed it in his hand. Although there was not much silver, there was at least six or seven taels.

Mu Nanzhi's way of throwing money would make her a money-waster in an ordinary family. She is definitely a spendthrift woman.

Just like in the TV series, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the real princess used Bodhi beads to hide her breath and appearance and disguised herself as a maid. A fourth-rank warrior like Nangong Qianrou could hardly detect her identity, but that didn't mean Chu Pingsheng would be deceived by her.

"give me back!"

Mu Nanzhi thought he picked up the purse to return it to her, but unexpectedly this hateful guy turned his hand and put it into her arms.

"Give it back to him!"

Nangong Qianrou couldn't bear to watch this, and chimed in: "Xu Qian'an, are you going to rob even a maid's wallet?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "This is my advance payment for saving my life."

Advance payment?

Life-saving reward?

Nangong Qianrou and Mu Nanzhi didn't know what this meant.

"It's the Kui tribe."

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The shouts from the lookout interrupted the conversation between the three people. The night watchman and the guards of the Zhenbei Palace in the cabin ran out together and ran to the side of the ship to look outside.

Under the cover of night, they saw two warships that were no smaller than the official ship they were on, approaching in a horn-like manner. There was a flash of fire at the bow, and then they shouted "Fire".

Rockets fell like stars, shot from the Kui tribe warships towards the official ship where they were.

Duh duh duh…

Duh duh duh…

One soldier was unable to dodge and was shot in the left shoulder, falling to the ground with a groan. Another soldier was hit by Nangong Qianrou, and the arrow that should have hit his chest was nailed to the board. The burning grease came into contact with the water stains, making a hissing sound and spreading a pungent smell.

puff……

A rocket hit the canvas, and the flames crawled like snakes, quickly gnawing out a large hole and spreading a stream of fire.

There was chaos on the boat. Chu Xianglong ordered his subordinates to launch a small boat. The night watchman and Sun Min and his followers protected them as they moved to the stern of the ship. Mu Nanzhi was also dragged to the back by a lieutenant.

Only Nangong Qianrou was left at the bow, waving a whip to fire the rockets. She turned back and shouted from time to time, reminding everyone not to panic.

The Kui tribe came with great force, sending out two warships of the same specifications, and had the advantage of attacking at night, so it was normal for the official ship to be defeated.

Chu Pingsheng did nothing and took advantage of the chaos to leave everyone's sight.

His current identity is Xu Qian'an, and it is not appropriate to reveal his identity until the critical moment.

…Early the next morning.

The junction of Jiangzhou and Chuzhou, the riverside wharf of Sanhuang County.

After a night of terror, Yuan Shaoqing of the Dali Temple who had managed to save his life said with lingering fear: "Why are people from the Kui clan appearing here?"

Censor Gou, who was standing next to him, twisted the hem of his official robe, and the water poured onto the ground like rain.

"Yes, although this place is not the heartland of Dafeng, it can be considered deep in the country. How did the Kui tribe sail the ship here and accurately launch a surprise attack on our ship?"

Sun Min, the Minister of Justice, straightened his official hat, which had been tilted all the way, and looked to the north: "The Kui clan warship appeared in Qingbei River, maybe something really happened in Chuzhou."

"I suspect there is a spy from the Kui clan in the court, who has leaked our whereabouts to the enemy." Nangong Qianrou was in much better condition than the three imperial envoys. Her hair was messy, and she smelled of oil used to make rockets. She looked a little tired, but not in a bad state.

Sun Min remained silent. He was one of the masterminds of the Sangpo case, so there was nothing wrong with defining him as a spy from the demon clan.

Censor Gou said, "It must be the remnants of the Qi Party. Liu Heng is dead, but they still refuse to stop and continue to collude with the enemies in the north to secretly carry out such petty actions. When I return to the capital after this trip, I will definitely ask the emperor to investigate the accomplices."

Nangong Qianrou did not take his words to heart. The censor of the Censorate always said "make a strong report". He was good at hindsight but not at facts.

"Where are Chu Xianglong and the princess? Where are the people from Zhenbei Palace?"

One of the attendants said: "When they abandoned their ship and fled last night, I saw their ship heading north."

Everyone frowned and stood on the south bank looking at the north bank. The Qingbei River was several hundred feet wide. It was right to flee separately in the face of an unfavorable situation. However, considering that their ship arrived safely at the Sanhuang County dock and no Kui tribe pursuers were seen, this meant that the Princess of Zhenbei was probably the primary target of those people.

Yuan Shaoqing said, "Is the princess okay?"

Sun Min said nothing.

Censor Gou also remained silent.

If something happened to the princess, it was not their responsibility, and Chu Xianglong had to take the blame.

"Hey, where's Xu Qian'an?"

It was not until then that Nangong Qianrou remembered that she had a boss who was used to currying favor with the powerful on her journey north. She looked at the entourage of the three officials who were packing their bags at the dock, and then looked at the empty boat floating on the water behind them, but there was no boat.

Xu Qian'an and Xu Yinluo, the chief officers in charge of the investigation into the Three Thousand Miles Blood Massacre incident, are missing.

……

The morning breeze blows along the river bank, willows sway, and green buds sprout.

Chu Xianglong carried the princess on his back all the way north, trying to shake off the pursuers of the Kui tribe, but he did not expect that the enemy was no weaker than him. In this attack, the barbarians dispatched two fourth-rank masters, one was the Red Lotus Snake Demon, and the other was the Barbarian Heavenly Wolf.

He has fought with these two people many times, and he has always been undefeated in a one-on-one encounter. Now he is fighting one against two, with the Princess of Zhenbei who needs to be taken care of behind him, so the result is predictable.

Hongling has always been ruthless. She pretended to hurt the princess, made a feint, and gave him a palm strike. The palm force carried snake venom into his body, and his entire arm suddenly lost consciousness. Tianlang seized the opportunity and chopped him down at the knee with a knife, and then punched him with all his strength.

Even though he was a fourth-rank warrior, known for his iron skin and bones, he could not escape being seriously injured and falling to the ground.

Hongling did not kill him immediately. She went over and lifted the princess's veil, only to find that the person was a fake.

Everyone knows that Princess Mu Nanzhi of Zhenbei is extremely beautiful and has a figure that can topple a country. The face under the veil is worthy of the word "pretty", but not "topple a country".

It turned out that in order to protect the real princess, Chu Xianglong found a fake one to distract their attention. Tianlang was furious and chopped down with a knife, leaving a foot-long wound on Chu Xianglong's back.

Chu Xianglong was laughing even though blood was spurting out of his mouth. However, he soon stopped laughing because Tianlang and Hongling's men quickly caught the maids who were fleeing and threw them next to the fake princess.

"Tell me who is the real princess. If you don't tell me, I will chop them all to pieces one by one."

Tianlang, who had a rough appearance and was burly and strong, pressed the knife against Chu Xianglong's neck and threatened loudly.

"You're dreaming."

Chu Xianglong was a ruthless man. After he finished speaking with a mouth full of blood, his body suddenly shook, and he fell down and died, severing his meridians.

Tianlang's expression froze. He kicked his body three times in hatred, spat, and said, "You got it lucky."

Hong Ling walked towards the huddled maids, narrowed her narrow and vicious eyes, shook the poisoned dagger in her hand and said in a sinister voice: "Tell me, who is the real princess? I will spare her life if she tells me first."

Faced with her intimidation, several maids trembled all over, their faces turned pale, and their eyes flickered like frightened hares.

"I seem to be a step late."

At this moment, a rather regretful voice floated from the woods.

There were Kui tribe warriors spreading the word around, allowing the newcomers to get so close. Hongling and Tianlang's faces changed.

"Who?"

Chu Pingsheng walked out from behind the two of them: "I'm here."

The sound clearly came from the south, but he appeared from the bushes in the north.

"The night watchman Yinluo, Xu Qian'an?"

"The Kui clan's Tianlang, the demon clan's Hongling."

"You know a lot."

Seeing that it was him, Hong Ling breathed a sigh of relief, because as everyone knows, the silver gong corresponds to the seventh to fifth ranks in the sequence of night watchmen. Xu Qian'an's support in the capital was a monk with a mysterious origin, and his support in Yunzhou was a strange bear monster of the fourth rank. Now that he has come to Chuzhou, he has lost the protection of the monk and has no bear monster to ride. With his little Taoist skills, he is no match for the fourth rank monster.

Chu Pingsheng said: "It's a pity that you don't know much."

Tianlang didn't want to delve into the meaning of this sentence. He put down the bloody knife in his hand, took off the bow on his back, hooked the string and put the arrow on it: "Since you are seeking your own death, then this chief will send you to your death."

call out.

The arrow shot through the air.

Chu Pingsheng did not dodge or evade. A black shadow shot out from the bushes behind him. With a light sound of ding, the Heavenly Wolf was shot out, and the arrow containing extreme power was picked up and flew away.

A cold light flashed in Hongling's eyes.

"This is……"

A black shadow fell to the ground and stood in front of "Xu Yinluo".

The rusted fish scales wrapped a shrunken corpse, the skin shriveled and hardened like old tree bark, the eyes under the helmet had rotted away, only two green lights were left, and the whole body exuded a cold aura. The thing that deflected the arrow was a rusty long knife.

Mummy?

No, it's a corpse puppet, and a corpse puppet whose combat power can rival that of a fourth-grade warrior!

"Do you think I would put myself in danger if I didn't have a killer solution to the problem?"

Chu Pingsheng finished speaking in Xu Qian'an's tone and clapped his hands.

Pop, pop, pop.

With each sound, an armored mummy walked out of the bushes. The armor was the same, but the weapons in their hands were different. They were swords, spears, and halberds. All of them were dull, with brown spots all over the iron blades.

"Kill them both."

At Chu Pingsheng's command, four mummies rushed towards Tianlang and Hongling with a gust of cold wind.

Obviously their flesh and blood have melted away, leaving only skin and bones, but what is surprising is that their thin bodies are not only able to support armor and wield weapons, but also have extremely high hardness, even harder than the iron skin and bones of a warrior. Hong Ling's strategy of continuously detonating her energy in an attempt to break the fragile bones has ended in failure.

What was even more troublesome was that the four mummies had a set of combined attack formations, holding knives, spears, swords, and halberds, and standing in the four directions of Kun, Xun, Zhen, and Qian, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner and cooperating with each other tacitly. In less than ten moves, Tianlang was hit on the shoulder by a sword and stabbed through the back by a rusty spear. A thick yin energy burst out and swallowed him up.

Hongling realized that things were not going well, so she forced the mummy holding the knife to retreat and tried to escape, but a sword energy came from nowhere and pierced her lower abdomen. Her energy was gone, and the mummy holding the spear took the opportunity to stab her and pinned her to the ground.

A negative energy surged out, and many small black insects crawled towards her through the halberd and drilled into her body through the wound.

"The Gu tribe, corpse...corpse Gu..."

Hongling began to twitch, her whole body shaking, her eyes staring at the expressionless mummy, in horror.

Chu Pingsheng didn't care about the fight behind him. He walked past the fake princess and walked towards the maids huddled under the big bluestone. He stopped in front of Mu Nanzhi and touched her feet.

"stand up."

The fake maid, the real princess, withdrew her gaze from the battle group, pointed at the corpse puppet that had easily killed two fourth-rank masters, and said, "Yours?"

"It's not mine, is it yours?"

Chu Pingsheng picked up his bag and threw it to her: "Follow me."

"What about them?"

"I have cleared out all the nearby Kui soldiers. Soldiers will come to look for them soon. As long as they don't run around, they will be safe."

"Princess, Princess, you don't care?"

Chu Pingsheng turned and walked forward: "I took your money, but I didn't take her money."

"Really? How can you be like this? Are you blinded by money?"

"Are you going to leave or not? If you don't want to leave with me, then you can stay with them."

Mu Nanzhi glanced back at Chu Xianglong's body and felt safer following him. Besides, Xu Qian'an was going to Chuzhou to investigate the case of the Three Thousand Miles Blood Slaughter, so he could just send her to the King of Zhenbei.

"I'll go with you."

She slung the gray cloth bag over her shoulder, and hurried on her feet. After catching up with Chu Pingsheng, she followed him closely.

"Will they really be okay?"

"So much nonsense."

"Xu Qian'an, you...what's your attitude?"

"..."

"Why haven't those four corpse puppets caught up with you yet? Are they the guards given to you by the Kaiguang monk?"

"Noisy."

"You! Humph!"

...(End of chapter)