Zhutian: My skills are not serious

On the hillside not far away, You Ji sat on A Bao's back, looking into the distance at the place where Chu Pingsheng disappeared, then looked at the four corpse puppets that stayed behind to protect the fake princess and the maids, and touched the hair of her little sister in her arms.

“He’s actually a good guy.”

"Choo Choo Choo……"

"It's just that the playfulness and evil taste are a bit stronger."

"Choo Choo Choo……"

"You asked me why I didn't help you force out the Demon Sealing Nail? Isn't this good? I can be a carefree little fox without any responsibilities or expectations."

Youji stretched out her slender finger and poked its furry head: "I think this is the right thing to do. It will help you to cure your hot temper."

"Chirp chirp chirp..."

"You mean the queen?"

You Ji pondered for a moment and shook her head slightly: "I don't think she will come. This time it's the Kui tribe in the north that is causing trouble on the border of Dafeng. There's no reason for the queen to rush to Chuzhou."

"Chirp chirp chirp..."

"What else can we do? Let's take it one step at a time."

You Ji said, "If the queen knew that Kai Guang had destroyed the angry Vajra image of the Bodhisattva Kāra Tree, I wonder what she would think."

"Chirp, chirp, chirp... chirp, chirp, chirp..."

Youji shook her head, shaking off the messy thoughts in her mind, and stroked the soft hair on Po's neck: "Let's go, Po."

The bear swung its four paws and ran towards the north like a destructive creature, breaking down the seedlings on the ground and raising a large cloud of dust.

……

Two days later.

The path is covered with lush green grass, and occasionally some sheep manure can be seen scattered in the fields. This area should be the herders' private land.

The horse's hooves pawed the ground, raising up the fishy-smelling dirt.

Mu Nanzhi sat in the front, feeling very uncomfortable with her arms folded and head lowered. From time to time, she nudged the man behind her with her shoulder to prevent him from getting too close.

"You don't want to buy the carriage, but only the horses. What do you want?"

Mu Nanzhi turned back with difficulty, his face full of anger.

"We have official business to attend to in Chuzhou, not to take you on a tour. Do you want to take a carriage? Should I hire a few servants to serve you?"

Mu Nanzhi gnashed his teeth and said, "You did it on purpose."

"Intentionally? Do you mean I'm taking advantage of you in this way?"

"Humph!"

"Auntie, why don't you look in the mirror and see how honorable you are? After all, I am a silver gong, an official of the imperial court with a salary of 100 taels a month. I don't care about my coldness, but this matter has nothing to do with you, right?"

The word "Auntie" hurt the heart of the most beautiful woman in Dafeng.

She wore Bodhi beads that could suppress her aura and change her appearance, in order to hide her stunning appearance and prevent any shameless villains from targeting her.

Unexpectedly, the act of avoiding trouble turned into trouble.

Chu Pingsheng stopped his chestnut horse, put his arm around her waist and threw her onto a field path that smelled of a mixture of grass, trees and sheep dung. He then threw the green cloth bag tied to the horse's neck over to her.

She dismounted, and he remained on top.

"What do you mean?"

"If you don't want to ride, then you can just walk."

Mu Nanzhi looked at the green grass wet with morning dew under her feet and felt something was unreal.

"You ride on horseback and let me walk?"

"Can't you?"

"Why?"

"Why? Because I am Yinluo, the night watchman, and you are an old, ugly maid. Because I am an official, and you are a slave. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Chu Pingsheng raised the reins and lightly squeezed the horse's belly. The chestnut horse's four hooves moved and it moved forward with a clatter.

Only then did she react and chased after him with her blue cloth bag in her arms and her skirt lifted. She didn't dare to stay alone in this desolate wilderness where there was no village or shop nearby.

"I am the princess..."

"I am...I am the Princess of Zhenbei..."

She shouted twice before Chu Pingsheng stopped his chestnut horse and looked uncertain.

"What did you say?"

Mu Nanzhi was panting heavily. She had always lived a life of luxury, but now she realized how painful it was to chase a horse.

"I said... I... I am the Princess of Zhenbei..."

"Are you kidding?"

Chu Pingsheng teased, "Everyone in Dafeng knows that the Princess of Zhenbei is extremely beautiful, unparalleled in the world. Look at you, you have a flat nose, droopy eyes, a crooked mouth, broad arms and thick hands, a waist as big as your butt, and a chest so flat that you can run a horse. You are the Princess of Zhenbei? Even a three-year-old child can't be fooled by this."

"you!"

Mu Nanzhi felt embarrassed and annoyed when she heard him criticizing her like this, so she stretched out her right wrist, lifted her sleeve, and revealed the string of Bodhi beads.

"Do you still recognize this?"

"It looks familiar."

Chu Pingsheng seemed to be "thinking about something".

Mu Nanzhi did not explain. She took off the Bodhi beads, and suddenly her whole aura, appearance, and even her figure changed.

The chest is the chest, the waist is the waist, and the butt is the butt.

Her face is like a spring peach blossom with dewdrops on it, and a pool of autumn water reflects the red mountains.

"Are you really the Princess of Zhenbei? This bracelet..."

"It hides the smell and changes the appearance."

"I remember now. I won this item from the Taoist priest who was setting up a stall under the archway of the Jiaofangsi. It turns out that the person in the carriage is you."

Mu Nanzhi was very satisfied with the change in his expression.

"Yes, the person in the carriage is me."

Chu Pingsheng looked at her steadily for a while, then stretched out his hand. Mu Nanzhi thought he was going to pull her on board, but as soon as she put her hand over, he opened it.

She looked at him with a puzzled look.

"You have to pay more."

"What extra money?"

"Bodhi beads cost extra money." Chu Pingsheng said, "This kind of treasure is worth ten thousand taels of silver, not to mention one thousand taels of silver."

Mu Nanzhi was almost driven crazy by him.

"Okay, I'll give you more money."

"How much?"

"Add another thousand taels."

"No, at least three thousand taels."

"Three thousand is three thousand, but where can I find the money for you in this remote place? You have to send me to Chuzhou first."

"can."

Chu Pingsheng reached out his hand again, and this time she was not pretentious and let him pull her onto the horse.

"Xu Qian'an..."

She gritted her teeth in hatred and spoke with murderous intent.

"What did you say?"

"nothing."

"I clearly heard you calling my name."

After the warm breath came out, Mu Nanzhi suddenly tensed up, and the hatred on his face was replaced by panic.

"I said that when I got to Chuzhou, I would let King Zhenbei reward you. If you hadn't rescued me, I would have died in the hands of the Kui clan."

"Do you think the Kui tribe went to so much trouble to enter the Dafeng border and attack our ship just to kill you?"

"Of course, the situation in the northern border is tense right now. If I am killed, it will definitely hit the morale of the King of Zhenbei and the soldiers of Chuzhou. The Kui tribe can take advantage of the situation and capture Chuzhou City in one fell swoop."

Chu Pingsheng sneered and said, "I think you overestimate your position in the eyes of King Zhenbei."

Mu Nanzhi turned back suddenly and glared angrily for several breaths.

"You have been married to the King of Zhenbei for many years, but he has never touched you. Now that the war in the northern border has started again, he actually asked Chu Xianglong to escort you to Chuzhou. What's the reason for this?"

"The King of Zhenbei is stationed in Chuzhou to keep the enemy out. It is normal that he cannot take care of family and national affairs."

"Go on, keep finding excuses for him and create the illusion that you two are in harmony and treat each other as equals." Chu Pingsheng sneered, "As if you didn't know that the King of Zhenbei was plotting against your spiritual essence."

Mu Nanzhi's face turned pale and she looked like a frightened bird.

"How do you know this?"

"Luo Yuheng told me."

"National Division?"

"Oh, it was the National Master who told the Master of Opening, and the Master of Opening told me, asking me to pay attention."

Mu Nanzhi thought of what happened on the boat and glared angrily.

"Okay, so you already knew my identity."

Chu Pingsheng just smiled and didn't give any direct response.

"Since you knew I was the Princess of Zhenbei, you still dared to bully me all the way. When we arrived at Chuzhou City..."

Call...

Chu Pingsheng urged to stop riding the chestnut horse.

She stopped talking and looked at him eagerly. Her expression of worry and dilemma was hilarious.

"Say, why don't you say anything?"

"I... won't tell you. I won't give you the chance to throw me off my horse."

"Very good, you have learned your lesson. You are easier to discipline than Huai Qing and Luo Yuheng."

"What are you mumbling about?" Chu Pingsheng did not answer her question. He squeezed the horse's belly lightly, shouted "Go", and the horse shook its head slightly and continued to move forward.

"King Zhenbei has reached the critical moment of breaking through the realm. This time he wants you to go north, and he is going to use your spiritual essence as a guide to be promoted to the second-rank warrior. To put it bluntly, you are just a tool in his hands."

This is actually true. Luo Yuheng has said it many times. Yuan Jing was planning to practice dual cultivation with him. The King of Zhenbei was unwilling to pluck the flower because he was preparing for a breakthrough. Therefore, he ignored Yuan Jing's repeated proposals.

Mu Nanzhi herself understood this, but there was nothing she could do. Firstly, she did not have the strength like Luo Yuheng, and secondly, she did not have a background that the royal family would fear. She could only accept the fate of being sent back and forth like an object.

"What a pity, King Zhenbei has no chance."

"What do you mean?"

Mu Nanzhi was awakened by his words.

"Because the King of Zhenbei is going to become the King of Tubei."

"King Tubei?"

"If my judgment is correct, he was most likely responsible for the bloodbath of 3,000 miles."

Mu Nanzhi was stunned at first, her pretty face turned cold and her expression was full of anger.

"Shut up! The Prince of Zhenbei is a prince of the royal family. He made great achievements in the battle of Shanhaiguan 20 years ago and was praised by people. That's why the emperor ordered him to guard the northern border to resist foreign enemies. As a general guarding the border, how could he do such a bad thing as you said?"

"You reacted so violently. Are you afraid that his evil deeds will be exposed and you will be implicated and suffer the consequences? I forgot that your parents are still alive and your clansmen are also in the capital."

Chu Pingsheng said: "I have a plan that can help you get out of this predicament."

Mu Nanzhi asked inexplicably: "What can you do?"

"Remarry."

Princess Zhenbei remarried?

Mu Nanzhi thought he must be crazy, because only a madman would have such crazy ideas.

Even if she wanted to remarry, would anyone dare to marry her?

"Master of Consecration."

When saying this, Chu Pingsheng felt like he was pimping for himself.

Mu Nanzhi looked at him with a very strange look.

If you think about it carefully, it does make some sense. Just imagine that the consecration can force Yuan Jing to give up his two daughters, so what's the harm in having one more princess?

"Xu Qian'an, are you so sure that the bloodbath of 3,000 miles was committed by the King of Zhenbei?"

"Do you dare to take a gamble?"

"What are you gambling?"

"If it was done by the King of Zhenbei, you will remarry the Master of Kaiguang. If it was not done by the King of Zhenbei, I don't want the three thousand taels of silver."

"You are a traitor, shameless!"

"Shameless? I don't think so. If it was done by the King of Zhenbei, the best outcome for you would be to spend your days in the cold palace amid endless infamy. You can remarry someone who dares to marry you and whom the royal family doesn't dare to offend, and you can live the rest of your life in peace. If it wasn't done by the King of Zhenbei, you can save a lot of money. You win either way."

Mu Nanzhi opened his lips slightly and blinked his eyes, refreshing his impression of Xu Yinluo.

It was obviously a very shameless thing, so how could he speak so reasonably, logically, seriously and impassionedly?

Da da da da…

"drive……"

"drive……"

The sound of horses urging them to hurry interrupted their conversation. Through the grove full of spring spirit, they vaguely saw two fully armed Dafeng soldiers running on the official road ahead, heading north at the fastest speed. It seemed that something big and urgent was happening there.

Chu Pingsheng said: "Yamaguchi County is ahead, and Chuzhou City is not far to the north."

Mu Nanzhi didn't say anything. She put on the Bodhi beads again, suppressed her breath, and disguised herself as before.

……

The world of storm.

The Second Dream, dressed in purple and with a veil covering his face, rode his horse across the bridge and passed through a dense bamboo forest, and came to the Duanqingju where he and the Second Sword Emperor had lived in seclusion before.

When the flock of pigeons behind the fence saw her coming, they did not get frightened and fly away. Instead, they swarmed over and moved closer to her.

"Don't make a fuss. I'll feed you later."

She dismounted, holding the sword in her left hand and a bulging, heavy-looking grey cloth package in her right hand, and ran towards the door of the cabin, her skirt fluttering like a dancing butterfly.

"Father, father..."

The second dream walked and called, but the room was quiet and no one answered.

"Dad? Dad!"

She walked up the stairs covered with a layer of dust and bamboo leaves to the door, pushed open the wooden door and walked into the room. There was no one in the front room. The teacups on the wooden table were upside down in the tea tray, and there was no water in the wooden basin for washing face. She hurried to the back room. Her bedroom was still the same. There was no one in her father's room either. The bedding was neatly folded, and there were some hairs scattered on the floor of varying lengths, not cut by a sharp object.

"Dad's hair?"

She squatted down, picked up a few strands of hair and looked at them carefully, then rubbed the curly and yellow tips, which were very rough and not smooth.

"Is this... a mark left by fire?"

Ever since Chu Pingsheng defeated the Second Sword Emperor and took her away from Duanqingju as agreed, she has never returned here. A few days ago, a white dove used for messaging flew to Aojian Villa and brought her a letter from the Second Sword Emperor, saying that he missed her and wanted her to stay in Duanqingju for a few days.

Because Wuming was seriously injured, a mysterious organization called Tianmen appeared in the martial arts world. Nie Feng brought a message from Chu Pingsheng, asking Madam Ao, Chu Chu, Dugu Meng and others not to leave Aojian Villa unless necessary, so as to avoid being targeted by Tianmen and defeated one by one.

She wrote back to the Second Sword Emperor, explaining the situation and the pros and cons, hoping that he could restrain himself. A few days later, she received another reply from Baige, saying that the Second Sword Emperor had gone astray in his practice and one of his legs was blocked, making it difficult for him to move. He then thought of his daughter and asked her to come to Duanqingju to pick her up and take her to Aojian Villa to recuperate.

Chu Pingsheng had made similar suggestions for retirement before, but the Second Sword Emperor refused, and she did not try to persuade him much. After all, as a daughter, she knew very well how bad her father's temper was, so it would be better to let him live alone here.

After learning about the Second Sword Emperor's idea, she did not rush to make a decision. She informed Madam Ao and Yan Ying of the matter. At first, their discussion resulted in sending a few servants to Duanqingju to pick her up, but for some unknown reason, Madam Ao did not send anyone to pick her up as the discussion led her to do. Instead, she let her come here by herself and told her to go and come back quickly.

"The house was intact and there was no sign of fire."

"Dad's swordsmanship is ruthless, and his internal strength is not fierce and fiery. What happened? Why did he burn his hair?"

The second dream didn't work. After confirming that there were no more clues, she stood up and pushed open the door to the backyard vegetable garden, looking left and right while shouting loudly.

"father?"

"father……"

The only responses she received were from Lin Tao and the cooing of the white doves.

After walking around the martial arts training ground carved out between the vegetable garden and the bamboo forest, he still couldn't find any trace of the Second Sword Emperor, so Di Er Meng returned in disappointment.

Who would have thought that as soon as I stepped into the room, a vague voice came from outside.

"Girl, are you looking for him?"

Di Er Meng walked south, opened the door and came to the front yard surrounded by a fence.

The black-maned horse she rode back was still outside, and there was nothing unusual. However, a man in a coarse cloth short jacket was lying on the ground between the fence gate and the black-maned horse. From the side profile, it was the unconscious Second Sword Emperor, but no one knew what kind of torture he had suffered. His face was pale, and there were spots of blood on his body.

"father!"

The second dream didn't have time to think before he quickly stepped forward, helped the man up from the ground, and checked his breath. The breath was still there, but very weak, and the pulse was extremely chaotic. The true energy that had passed through would be bounced back by a hot and fierce force.

She knew what happened to the hair that was burned by fire and scattered around the room.

"who is it?"

Before he could finish his words, the black-maned horse in front that was blocking his view let out a long neigh.

Xi Yuyu...

There was another loud bang.

The horse, frightened for unknown reasons, flew sideways and fell with a thud in the grass dotted with a few white flowers at the edge of the bamboo forest. A pool of blood flowed from the horse's mouth, and its hooves twitched twice before it became motionless. Looking from the side, a black palm print could be seen on its abdomen, and the nearby fur and flesh gave off a disgusting burnt smell.

The second dream looked straight ahead, and saw a burly man wearing leather armor, with red hair draped behind his head and a yellow cloak buckled on his shoulders fluttering in the wind.

"who are you?"

"I am the God General of Tianmen."

As the man spoke, he emitted a surge of heat. The light around him was distorted and his figure became blurred. The green grass on both sides of the road was instantly dried up, and the leaves curled up, turning yellow and withered at the edges, and finally turned into a pile of debris and fell to the ground.

In the second dream, he only felt a stinging pain on his face, as if a flame was burning close to his body, and the true energy that was spread over his body surface to resist the heat was quickly dissipating.

Although she was not a top master, she learned from a famous teacher. However, facing the man in front of her who claimed to be a divine general, she had no chance of attacking him. She had already exhausted all her strength just to resist the aura emitted by the other party.

Suddenly, the figure disappeared.

Di Er Meng felt her feet go empty and her whole body left the ground. The Tianmen God was nearly three feet away from her. The five fingers of his right hand, which was wrapped in a ball of red flame, clasped her hands. She felt as if her throat was grabbed and she couldn't breathe. The fire poison was like an insect ant drilling around, corroding her meridians.

"What...are you going to do..."

"Nonsense, of course it's to force Chu Pingsheng to show up. I want to see how long he will continue to be a coward after his woman is captured."

The heat was getting stronger and stronger, the internal energy was almost exhausted, Di Er Meng's hands and feet were drooping, and his consciousness was gradually becoming blurred. At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill coming from the package on his back, and his mind returned instantly. He heard the sound of cloth tearing, and in his peripheral vision he saw a streak of bone white and bits of ice crystals falling.

The divine general, his whole body radiating heat, roared, raised his left hand to block, his aura exploded and turned into a fire shield.

Gu Bai did not pause, the bone-piercing cold air tore through the fire shield, throwing out a ball of ice powder, and piercing the god general's left hand with just one stab. The ice crystals devoured the fire and thunder energy at a speed visible to the naked eye, from the palm to the back of the palm, and then to the entire arm and shoulder. In just three breaths, a layer of frost covered it. Another three breaths, the frost connected. In another three breaths, the god general's body turned into a lifelike ice sculpture, with fear in his eyes and anger on his face.

call out.

The ulna-long bone dagger that pierced the god's left hand retreated violently and inserted into the main body of the bone whip hanging from the cloth bag.

The second dream was that he curled up his upper body and shivered.

In just a dozen breaths, she experienced the temperature change from scorching hot to cold, and she also understood why Madam Ao had repeatedly warned her to keep the gray cloth bundle within reach no matter how dangerous the situation was, even when sleeping or eating.

She had seen what was inside, half of a strange python bone whip, but she clearly didn't know how to use a whip, and the whip was only half.

It turns out that the whip moves on its own without being used.

Click...

Click...

Click...

The bone whip, which was only half the body of a python, twisted its joints, slid out of the bag, and snaked on the ground. Finally, it swung its body and raised the whip tip covered with a layer of ice armor and as sharp as a sword, pointing to the light-proof bamboo forest in the front right, as if guarding against something.

"I know this is your plot to lure the snake out of its hole, and you also know that I am using your trick against you. Even so, you let one of your men come out to die. Emperor Shitian, you speak in a heroic manner and call yourself a god, but your actions are no different from those of a villain."

A man pushed open the door of the wooden house and walked down the stairs.

"Life?"

The second dream was shocked: "When did you come here?"

The two had not seen each other for many days. The news Nie Feng brought back was that he was practicing in seclusion in Lingyun Cave.

"I came after him." (End of this chapter)