The Bad Guys: Everyone, let’s revive the Tang Dynasty together!

Chapter 291 Twelve Cave

Xiao Yan and his party waited at the entrance of the valley until sunset. As Qian Wu said, the wind and sand in the Painting Valley gradually slowed down, and it was no longer so dazzling that it would make people speechless as soon as they entered.

Several people climbed up the mountain and looked out.

At that time, the sun was about to set, and the remaining clouds in the sky were still rolling. The blood-red sunset hung outside the skyline. Several people looked at it from different angles and felt that the red sun was about to fall. Large patches of remaining clouds seemed to be painted with a thick red color. The mountains outside the valley were hazy covered with forests, and the valley was covered with yellow sand and crisscrossed with gullies.

It can be said that the mountains are like the sea and the setting sun is like blood.

Thinking about the rumors that the Twelve Caves could not escape from the world, looking at this deadly valley dozens of miles deep, one can't help but feel sentimental. But when one thinks that the Twelve Caves might be right in front of them, and that they have been searching for them but have not found them, one can't help but feel frustrated.

After finally walking this journey of a hundred miles, am I really going to end up returning empty-handed at the last step?
Chi Meng made a trumpet shape with his hands and shouted: "Hey! Twelve Caves, where the hell are you!!"

Her cries were heard far away, but the wind and sand were stronger than her cries and easily swallowed up the echo at the bottom of the valley. Seeing that it was getting dark and the sun was about to sink below the western horizon, Chi Meng couldn't help but sigh.

Her father is still waiting to find a way to save her in Twelve Caves...

Xiao Yan frowned and thought for a long time, thinking that he did not have the Longquan Sword with him, so no one from the Twelve Caves showed up.

He closed his eyes and thought. From the time he met Xian Shen, to the time he obtained the book in the Jijia Tomb and the time he broke through Zen in Luohua Cave, this world line had long been messed up by him. The hexagram that Li Chunfeng had given three hundred years ago had also been biased towards him. According to the instructions left by Li Chunfeng at the end of the mural in Luohua Cave, this Taoist priest Li should have more arrangements.

In the eyes of Xizong and Zhaozong, the two last emperors of the Tang Dynasty, the Longquan treasure was the key to the restoration of the Tang Dynasty. It was not difficult for Li Chunfeng to calculate it three hundred years ago. The sentence "Call the holy child, open Longquan, achieve peace, and create Datong" also obviously gave Xiao Yan a direct clue. From Li Chunfeng's perspective, he wanted Xiao Yan to skip many key steps in between.

This is obviously different from Li Xingyun. Perhaps under Yuan Tiangang's arrangement, this legitimate son of the dragon still has to embark on the journey to find the Longquan treasure, so as to hone Li Xingyun's character and cultivate his ambition to become king.

This was also the method Li Chunfeng came up with after he figured out that the Longquan Sword had always been in the hands of Yuan Tiangang. After all, those clues that ultimately point to the Longquan treasure would be impossible to find without the Longquan Sword. If Xiao Yan could find the holy child, he would naturally know where the Longquan treasure was.

Although Xiao Yan knew that the Longquan treasure was under the Jieliang Salt Lake, from the perspective of Li Chunfeng and other people in this world, he should not know it, so they left the clues of the Holy Child to guide him. Xiao Yan only needed to solve the problem of the ownership of the Longquan Sword to touch the real treasure.

So, in the final analysis, the Twelve Caves should not refuse entry to outsiders just because they do not carry the Longquan Sword.

Which step went wrong?
Xiao Yan thought carefully, and suddenly heard the sound of camel bells outside the valley.

It was indeed the sound of camel bells. Ji Ruxue was obviously the first one to hear it. After confirming it, she immediately looked at him.

Chi Meng, Hou Qing and the other two also reacted and looked up. Chi Meng covered his forehead with his hand and squinted his eyes to identify it carefully.

"Hey, where did the camel come from in the Shiwanda Mountains? There are people on it..."

"Ah, it's someone from the Ten Thousand Poison Cave!!"

Almost at the same time as this sentence was spoken, a dull drum sound rang out outside the Painting Valley.

The sound of camel bells became more and more frequent. As a few camels walked slowly into Huagu, several huge war elephants followed closely behind. On the war elephants, there were war drums erected, and several shirtless elephant drivers were beating the drums.

Behind them came a dense crowd of soldiers, carrying bows and swords, without armor, with their faces painted with all kinds of paint and wearing turbans, looking very ferocious.

The five old subordinates rode on camels and walked in the front. After seeing Xiao Yan and his group on the mountain from afar, they all took out their weapons.

On a war elephant in the center, a man was sitting cross-legged, with ox horn shoulder ornaments on both sides, a turban decorated with gems, white pupils, and a faint smile.

There was no mahout on this war elephant, but the mahout just raised his head and the elephant stopped obediently when he sat down. The whole team also stopped immediately. Hundreds of soldiers put on their bows and arrows. Although they did not draw their bows, they were obviously ready for battle.

As for the people on the other war elephants, they were dressed differently, but their clothes were slightly luxurious and quite elegant. If my guess was correct, they might be the chiefs of the large villages and clans who had defected to Du Gong.

"Poison! King! Bastard!"

Looking at the man on the war elephant, Chi Meng couldn't help but grit his teeth and clench his fists in anger.

Hou Qing turned the bone flute in a circle between his fingers, looked up at Du Gong, then lowered his head without interest. He took out a carving knife from somewhere and began to carefully carve this precious bone flute.

Xiao Yan was thoughtful. Was he planning to act out the whole thing? Sending the Buddha to the west?
He also began to understand why no one had shown up from the Twelve Caves yet.

"hehe--"

The Poison Master laughed out loud. The sound seemed small, but it echoed throughout the valley for a moment, almost covering up the humming sound of the wind and sand.

"My son Youchuan, Saint, I have missed you for a long time."

Hearing this, You Chuan instinctively shuddered all over and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in reality he had nothing to say and could only remain silent with a complicated expression.

It was this adoptive father whom he respected, believed in and admired the most in his life, the adoptive father who treated him like his own son, who personally pushed him into the abyss, turning this young priest into a traitor to Raojiang who was hated by everyone.

Moreover, he had already seen clearly that if the Poison Lord had no evil intentions, why would he block them all the way to the Twelve Caves?
There must be something in the Twelve Caves that Du Gong fears! There must also be something that can save Rao Jiang!
"Poisonous bastard!"

Chi Meng stood on the mountain with his hands on his waist, staring at Du Gong viciously, pointing at him and questioning: "Where did you hide Wo's father? And what makes you say that Wo and You Chuan are traitors? Did you put the Ten Thousand Spider Gu on those corpse monsters? Why did you want to harm the villagers in the Ten Thousand Mountains? "

Chi Meng originally thought that this questioning would not only cause some reaction from Du Gong himself, but at least the soldiers who followed him from the Ten Thousand Poison Cave would have some reaction. However, unexpectedly, from Du Gong onwards, his old subordinates and the soldiers who followed him did not show any fluctuations at all.

Chi Meng widened his eyes in disbelief.

Did the poisonous bastard give them all some drug that made them all crazy? ?
The Poison Lord, who was sitting cross-legged on the war elephant, laughed and shook his head helplessly, saying, "I really don't know who deceived the Saint. Everyone knows that the Ten Thousand Spider Gu is the Gu technique of my brother, the Gu King. Although I learned a little bit in my early years, how can I compete with my brother? How can I control the corpse monsters thousands of miles away in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave..."

His white pupils slowly swept across You Chuan and Chi Meng, paused on Hou Qing for a moment, and finally his gaze fell on Xiao Yan.

"I guess this distant visitor from the Central Plains is the culprit who seduced the Saint and provoked the civil strife in Wurao Border?"

"You are talking nonsense!" Chi Meng was extremely angry, and his fingers subconsciously reached for the small gourd at his waist to summon the toad out.

Xiao Yan smiled, patted her shoulder gently, and then looked down at the Poison Lord at the foot of the mountain and asked, "What the Witch King said is funny. As we all know, at that time, the corpse monsters were ravaging the northern border, and it was the Saint Girl who led us to eliminate the evil and protect the people, and to protect the safety of dozens of villages and tens of thousands of people. How could she have provoked civil strife in Raojiang?"

Du Gong chuckled and was about to speak when Xiao Yan suddenly pointed at him and spoke with narrowed eyes.

“But you, as the Witch King of the Ten Thousand Poison Caves, one of the two kings jointly elected by Raojiang, at a time when the King of Gu is seriously ill, corpse monsters are rampant, and other internal troubles are constant, you, the Witch King, not only do not think about protecting the people of Raojiang, but only think about militarism, and blatantly send troops to Nanping Kingdom regardless of the internal situation!
At this time, wives in the villages of Raojiang have left their husbands, sons have left their fathers, and countless family pillars have been thrown into exile for your wishful thinking. You can't even bring back a corpse. How dare you, the Witch King, frame the Saint and the Junior Sacrifice Officer for betraying Raojiang? As juniors, they are still working hard for Raojiang and running around..."

And you! Poison Lord Chi Li, you clearly have the trust of all the people in Raojiang, but you use the title of Witch King to deceive the people and fool the people of Raojiang. You imprisoned the Gu King and harmed all the people in Raojiang, causing Raojiang to become a ruin and the people to suffer. It is right before our eyes!"

You are truly guilty of a grave crime, and heaven and earth cannot tolerate you!"

Even if the soldiers were indifferent to these words, they couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment, because Xiao Yan didn't speak in the Central Plains dialect, but in the pure Raojiang dialect, which everyone present could understand. The faces of several village chiefs and clan leaders who were accompanying him changed, and they all had some doubts in their hearts, why did they feel that the underpants of the poisonous man were seen through by this guy.

Du Gong narrowed his eyes, and he wanted to speak, but Xiao Yan had deep internal strength, and he was standing on the top of the mountain, with great momentum. Any word he said drowned out his voice, so he could only listen to it in frustration.

Seeing Xiao Yan finally finished speaking, he stroked his beard and smiled, saying: "This distant visitor from the Central Plains, don't you know..."

"shut up!"

Xiao Yan sneered and shouted, "Shameless old thief, don't you know that all the people in Raojiang are willing to eat your flesh alive, how dare you talk nonsense here! Although the Gu King is trapped in your hands now, the Saint is still here, and she will follow the Gu King's will, eliminate the traitors in the poison den, and return a bright and clear world to the 100,000 mountains of Raojiang! An old thief like you can only hide your head and live a life of poverty, how dare you frame us in front of the Saint!?

"You old bastard with white hair and grey beard, you have no face to face the people of Raojiang. If you don't commit suicide in front of the battlefield, what else are you waiting for?!"

Several village chiefs and clan leaders were already dumbfounded. They had always been in Raojiang and had never heard of such words before. These few words made their brains confused, as if they really looked down on Poison Lord. They all glanced at Poison Lord subconsciously at the same time.

Du Gong's face was gloomy, extremely gloomy.

He had always been cheerful and had never felt so embarrassed before.

Several village chiefs and clan leaders felt a chill in their hearts, and they all wanted to slap themselves in the face.

It's bad, it's bad, how could I really listen to what this guy said...

Chi Meng had been stunned for a long time, but by the end, he held his head high, put his hands on his waist, and stared at Du Gong viciously, as if he really wanted to eat his flesh alive.

But then he thought again, the meat of the Poison Master must be very smelly, maybe even rotten, and there might be maggots in it, so he dared not eat it, so he quickly spat a few times.

"You are quite eloquent."

Poison Master wanted to laugh, but couldn't, so he just said expressionlessly: "It's a pity that the girls in Luohua Cave seem to be waiting for you to go back and save them. Unfortunately, no matter how eloquent you are, it won't help them at all."

Xiao Yan was unmoved, but Ji Ruxue and Chi Meng were both shocked. The latter couldn't help but change color: "Poisonous bastard, what did you do to Sister Qianwu and the others?!"

Although the two girls were a little wary of Qian Wuduo, who had a cold appearance and a pair of long legs, this did not prevent them from treating her as one of their own.

Moreover, if you want to enter Huagu, you must pass through Luohua Cave. Du Gong and his gang have mobilized such a large force, maybe they can really do something to Luohua Cave.

Xiao Yan frowned. Although Qian Wu and the others were only women, their overall strength was not weak, and Qian Wu's own martial arts should not be underestimated. Luohua Cave was their home ground, and even if they were defeated, they could still advance and retreat calmly. Before leaving, he also explained the current situation of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to Qian Wu and the others. Under the circumstances of being well prepared, it was obviously unlikely that the Poison King would succeed.

Thinking about it this way, it is more likely that this old guy is bragging.

Du Gong saw that Xiao Yan showed no emotion, so he knew that he had not tricked him. After secretly feeling that the Marshal's evaluation of this boy was true, he curled his lips and raised his hand.

Hundreds of soldiers who had been prepared for a long time immediately drew their bows, tightened the cowhide strings, and aimed dense arrows at the few people on the mountain.

Hou Qing clicked his tongue, turned the bone flute, took a step forward, clasped his hands together, and was about to say hello so that Chi Meng and the others would understand what it meant to be a veteran in the world.

"Fighting here..."

A voice suddenly resounded through the valley.

"Did you ask for my opinion?"

The sound was very low, but its echo continued to float in the narrow canyon, irritating everyone's nerves.

Xiao Yan frowned. He could only see a wisp of afterimage flashing across the sand walls on both sides of the valley, but he could not catch where the original starting point of this afterimage was.

Hou Qing clicked his tongue again and glanced downward at the black-robed figure who seemed to have suddenly stood in front of the war elephant.

The war elephant carrying the Poison King retreated uncontrollably a few times, making nervous, rapid, low moos.

The five old subordinates turned around from their camels in panic, each of them as if they were facing a great enemy.

Poison Lord narrowed his pale eyes and looked up and down at the man in black robe.

The village chiefs and clan leaders on both sides were all at a loss. With their strength, the man in black robe seemed to have suddenly grown out of the ground. Before they could react, they were confronted by the Poison Lord head-on.

All the archers immediately changed direction and aimed at the man in black robe.

"hehe--"

Lord Du raised his hand, looked down at the man in black robe from the war elephant, and said, "Sir..."

"Your martial arts skills are not weak, but I heard that your witchcraft is even stronger." The man in black robe stood in front of the war elephant. He looked very small, but his momentum was so strong that he forced the war elephant to retreat continuously.

"If you want to fight, why don't you and I compete in witchcraft? Whoever is weaker will die. How about that?"

After hearing the voice of the man in black robe, Du Gong stroked his beard and pondered in silence.

The man in black robe turned around and walked towards the bottom of the valley.

"Those above, those who want to die, stay here."

The yellow sand swept across the sky, and his figure slowly moved through it. Although he had his back to the crowd, he forced those hundreds of people to not dare to shoot a single arrow.

Hou Qing patted the bone flute and commented, "Interesting."

Xiao Yan no longer paid attention to Du Gong and the others, "Let's go, follow them."

Seeing them disappear in the yellow sand, the village chief looked at Du Gong anxiously.

"Witch King, just let them...these are the Twelve Caves..."

"Haha, it doesn't matter."

(End of this chapter)