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

Chapter 308: Each Wins

In the twilight, the last ray of setting sun in the sky disappeared below the skyline, and the entire Poison Cave fell into darkness.

The witchcraft formation covered an area of ​​several miles, creating a 'vacuum zone' several miles wide between the Ten Thousand Poison Cave and the outside world, with only dark mosquitoes swarming in it. High towers were built along the line of the vacuum zone near the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to observe the situation of the entire witchcraft formation.

As dusk approaches, torches have been lit on the tall towers. Guards with bows on their waists are standing guard inside. Some are bored, some are on duty, and some are deserting their posts. There are two guards on each tower, but most of them have nothing to do.

Once the witchcraft formation is activated, no one can pass inside or outside. Not only that, the dense and lingering witchcraft will also block the vision for miles away. This is not only true for the outside world, but also for the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

This is the reason why Du Gong said "tying one's own hands and feet".

Back then, the King of Gu and the Lord of Poison spent several days together setting up this witchcraft formation. It was originally intended to resist foreign enemies when the Ten Thousand Poison Cave was empty. In other words, when the time came to activate the witchcraft formation to protect itself, the Ten Thousand Poison Cave would have been almost at the end of its rope. Therefore, it was only considered for defensive purposes and no advantage was left for counterattack.

This is of course like drawing a circle to create a prison, but it also makes the defense capability watertight. According to the idea of ​​the King of Gu and the Lord of Poison back then, if the Ten Thousand Poison Cave had not withdrawn its formation on its own initiative, this witchcraft formation could have lasted for years without dispersing, and the cost would only be dozens of Gu Masters using their Gu techniques to maintain the formation.

Therefore, even if the coalition forces from the outside world had already arrived outside the witchcraft formation, it would be difficult for the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to receive the news. Not only that, because the various villages had defected one after another, most of the spies that had been scattered outside by the Ten Thousand Poison Cave had been executed, and the remaining people were unable to pass on messages to the Ten Thousand Poison Cave through the poisonous insects because of the counter-blockade of the Poison King.

Therefore, the guards on top of these high towers still had a relaxed attitude, and they would joke and chat with each other from time to time. Their vigilance was much lower than when the formation was first formed.

The young man from the Dan tribe, Tulasi, held the anti-poison bead in his hand and groped his way through the witchcraft formation in the dark. He stopped only ten feet away from the tower.

The dozen or so people behind him, including himself, were all dressed in black clothes and bamboo hats, looking like ghosts in the twilight. However, this pitch-black environment was like a fish in water for them.

Since the Dan people are afraid of light all year round and are not allowed to expose their skin, their eyesight is better than that of ordinary people. They can rely on their experience to move in the dark. Therefore, although there was no light along the way, they still successfully found this place.

But even so, they immediately lay on the ground so that their figures would not be exposed.

Migeshu, who had fought with Ji Ruxue in Guishizi, climbed to the side of the Tuola Stone and squinted at the wall behind the high tower. He saw that there were also shadowy figures of people. There was obviously a witchcraft formation blocking the place, so why were there so many guards deployed here?

"What do you mean?" she asked Tulasi in a low voice.

"According to Mr. Xiao's plan."

Tu Luo Shi didn't say much and had already passed through the witchcraft formation. More than ten people no longer needed to gather in one place to rely on the protection of the poison-avoiding beads, so he immediately distributed the tasks, and everyone dispersed in an instant.

There are quite a few guards left behind in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave. According to the information provided by You Chuan, there should be hundreds of poison masters and more than a thousand guards. In addition, the nine villages rooted in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave also have their own manpower, so they should not be underestimated.

There are eighty-one villages in Raojiang. Except for the thirty-two villages in the northern border, there are twenty villages in Raozhong and southern borders respectively. The remaining nine villages were all moved into Wandu Cave in the early years to increase the population. These nine villages are also the strongest ones among the eighty-one villages.

In addition, there are large clans of Gu Masters such as the Tong family that have developed into the scale of a village in recent years. Although there are not many people in the clan, they are powerful and most of them are Gu Masters. They are also one of the clans most likely to reach a cooperation with Du Gong and offer their Gu Masters to train the God of War.

These village chiefs and clan leaders who are close to the Poison Lord all have their own duties in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, forming a protective formation, guarding the Ten Thousand Poison Cave village in the center from all four sides.

The people of the Dan tribe did not alarm the guards on the high tower. They carefully bypassed the patrolling guards on the village wall and used grappling hooks and other tools to sneak into the Poison Cave.

During this period, they usually resolved the occasional frictions quickly and tried their best to suppress the movement and clean up the bodies.

According to Xiao Yan's prior arrangement, the group was divided into three teams.

One team is responsible for finding out as many troop deployment points as possible in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, led by Tu Luo Shi. The other team will go deep into the Ten Thousand Poison Cave's Tong clan to look for a Tong clan girl named "Tong Yue". This person had been planted with a wandering Gu by Chi Meng earlier, and the method of casting the Gu had been taught to Mi Geshu, so they can use it to find her whereabouts. Naturally, this team is led by Mi Geshu.

The last team is used to prevent unexpected situations. They always stay at the edge of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to create momentum and support the other two teams in case of emergencies.

Not to mention that Tu Luo Shi led his men around to record the deployment of troops in various places, Mi Geshu and several of his subordinates, holding the map provided by You Chuan, went deep into the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, searching for Tong Yue's trace through the Liuzong Gu.

Half an hour later, Migeshu sneaked into Tongyue's boudoir alone and took her out.

Tong Yue knew a lot of witchcraft, but his strength was very weak and he had no ability in close combat. He was easily captured by Migeshu while he was sleeping, and he didn't even have time to make the slightest sound from beginning to end.

Migeshu had only one purpose in capturing Tongyue. The Gu King had five trusted subordinates, known as the Five Venerables, who had fought side by side with the Gu King for many years and were as close as brothers. Before, the Gu King was seriously ill, and he had intended to entrust Chi Meng to these five men. However, before the five men could take Chi Meng away from the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, the Poison King took the initiative and imprisoned the Five Venerables separately.

Migshu's mission is to confirm where the five venerables are imprisoned.

Tongyue is the legitimate daughter of the Tong family, and the head of the Tong family was one of the people that Du Gong valued the most. Therefore, Tongyue herself knows a lot of information. After a brief interrogation by Migeshu, Tongyue honestly told the location where the five venerables were imprisoned, which was the sacred mountain Raoyue in Raojiang. Of course, it was only a suspicion, and for such a major matter, the head of the Tong family did not have a definite location.

But this was enough. Migeshu led his men and Tongyue and went deep into the Poison Cave, Raoyue, without stopping. They did not move for the time being, but just hid temporarily and waited for the opportunity.

After Tu Luo Shi confirmed the deployment of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave's troops, he hurriedly sneaked out of the Witchcraft Formation before dawn and handed the deployment map to Xiao Yan.

Everything happened naturally and quietly.

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After Li Siyuan felt a little uneasy, he stopped practicing martial arts and walked across the village wall in person.

Li Siyuan has always trusted his intuition very much. When Li Cunxu, the Prince of Jin, returned in defeat in Hebei, although he was secretly happy, he was also particularly concerned about Xiao Yan, a person he had never met before. Not to mention that Xiao Yan came to Raojiang inexplicably and was involved with King Gu and others, which made Li Siyuan feel cautious from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, he did not disbelieve in all of Du Gong's plans, such as the heavy troops outside and the witchcraft formation inside, but out of habit, he still kept his guard up.

At least nothing can go wrong before the drug dealer comes out of jail.

Therefore, what made Migeshu feel strange was that even though there was a witchcraft formation to block the village, the Poison Cave still deployed so many guards on the village wall, which was really making a fuss out of nothing.

This was done by Li Siyuan, for which he, an outsider, has been the subject of much criticism in recent days. If it weren't for the fact that Du Gong had supported him early on, the village chief would not have cooperated with him in such a superfluous matter.

Li Siyuan naturally had no explanation for this. If he was in Tongwen Hall, such an angry village chief would have been fed to snakes long ago. The people in the southern barbarians were really ignorant. These village chiefs had no sense of crisis at all. They actually dared to rely on a witchcraft formation and sleep soundly. It was really ridiculous.

Li Siyuan did not overestimate Xiao Yan, but simply developed a habit of being too cautious in Jin State for many years. In Jin State, the King of Jin Li Keyong suppressed and suspected him, the holy leader, and the Crown Prince Li Cunxu was in power in the army and looked down on him, the elder brother, so Li Siyuan, the holy leader of Tongwenguan, had to associate with farmers and other rural people to show that he had no ambition.

In fact, this habit really made him discover something.

After some occasional frictions along the way, Migeshu and the others wanted to use the magic flame insects to deal with the corpses, but they were worried that the fire ignited by the magic flame insects would be too big and might attract the attention of the guards of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, so they just hid.

Since Li Siyuan had personally walked across the village wall, with his keen sense, it would have been difficult for him not to notice the corpses.

"interesting."

Li Siyuan stroked his mustache and narrowed his eyes slightly: "The file I collected earlier said that Xiao Yan also has a poison-avoiding bead?"

"Saint Lord, this is indeed the case." A disciple from the Tongwen Academy whispered, "Do you want to conduct a large-scale search..."

"late."

Li Siyuan sighed and said with his hands behind his back, "The Ten Thousand Poison Cave is so vast, how can these useless people capture Xiao Yan? Give the order to double the number of people in the Wu King's retreat, that is, the Gu Control Field. I want to make sure that there are no leaks and there will be no mistakes."

The disciple got the order and left, holding the token of the Poison Master, and urgently ordered dozens of Gu Masters to support the Gu Control Field.

Li Siyuan stood in the camp with his hands behind his back, waving his folding fan and frowning.

Xiao Yan, did he really dare to break into the Poison Cave alone? You know, with just one poison-avoiding bead, it can only protect more than ten people from passing through the witchcraft formation.

The Poison Master had already been on high alert, fearing that someone would disturb the Gu-refining process. Even if Xiao Yan came in person, he would only fall into the trap. The formation created by hundreds of Gu Masters was waiting for Xiao Yan to break through.

If it wasn’t Xiao Yan, who else could it be, the Gu King Chi Li?
Li Siyuan paced back and forth, and suddenly he was startled and squinted his eyes to look outside the camp.

At this time, the sky was slightly bright, with the sun beginning to appear in the distance. The sky was hazy, and it was just about to get light and the chill was getting stronger.

However, Li Siyuan completely ignored the beautiful scenery in the sky, but stared at the witchcraft formation that covered the Poison Cave.

"Someone is coming..."

Almost at the same moment, a whistle suddenly pierced the sky.

Several disciples of Tongwenguan who had just reacted stared with wide eyes at the dense dark mosquitoes in the witchcraft formation in the distance. Suddenly, it was as if a layer of them was peeled off by someone, and they became sparse and scattered in the blink of an eye.

Not only that, in just a blink of an eye, the voodoo that filled the dark mosquitoes suddenly dissipated inexplicably, and in just a breath, the great formation seemed to suddenly become broken.

"Holy Lord, look!"

Li Siyuan did not answer, but just narrowed his eyes.

He was very curious. There was Xiao Yan, a Gu King, and at most a Hou Qing. Even more amazing than that, there would be another woman who could not leave the Dead Creek Forest as Du Gong mentioned.

Plus some saints, young priests and the like.

What’s the use of just a few people breaking the formation?

On the side of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, he had already ordered all the camps to be on high alert!
The courage of an ordinary man is not worthy of being shown on stage!

Suddenly, Li Siyuan's hand, which was twirling his moustache, paused and his expression became suspicious.

It was because in his ears, he could clearly hear the sound of drums beating on all sides outside the Ten Thousand Poison Cave. It was the war drums of Raozhai, which could control elephants. It was said that under a certain rhythm, it could also suppress poison in a small area, making ordinary poison techniques, such as the Bee Control Curse, temporarily ineffective.

A strategy of confusing the enemy with enemies? With so few people, can they be dispersed to do such a small thing?
Several experienced disciples of Tongwenguan dispersed without being told, in order to scout out the enemy's situation.

However, before they could walk far, the guards on the village wall jumped off their horses, tumbling and crawling, with panic on their faces. Unable to find anyone else in charge, they started to speak a lot of nonsense to Li Siyuan.

Li Siyuan frowned and listened to the disciple beside him retelling the story with a serious look on his face.

"Saint Lord, this person said that outside, outside..." The disciple's face turned pale, and he asked the guard in disbelief: "There are tens of thousands of people outside attacking the village!?"

Li Siyuan's heart also skipped a beat.

Of course his first instinct was to think that the guard was talking nonsense.

Raojiang's elite troops had long been withdrawn by Du Gong, so where did Xiao Yan get tens of thousands of soldiers to mobilize?
Even if the Gu King was rescued, it would be impossible to gather the troops from all the villages in just two or three days! Unless Xiao Yan sent someone to facilitate this in advance!

No, no, no...

Li Siyuan looked serious, and he pulled off several of his mustaches. He lowered his voice and cursed, "Chi Li, you are wrong. Didn't I tell you that Xiao Yan is very good at making a big profit with a small investment? You are making up stories out of nothing! But you insisted on bragging to me that you had a plan in advance. I really believed your lies!!"

He no longer had the heart to distinguish between true and false, and immediately gave orders to several village chiefs who came out of the village with confused faces, strictly ordering all parties to use the village wall as the boundary and to defend it for one day. If they could not hold the village wall, they should immediately retreat to the second line of defense and block the enemy layer by layer in order to buy time for the Poison Lord who was still in seclusion in the Yu Gu field.

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The head of the Tong family, who said with a sullen face that his legitimate daughter was missing, was simply slapped away by Li Siyuan.

He's fucking about to die, why does he need a daughter?
The leaders of each village listened to the noise outside the Ten Thousand Poison Cave and thought that the number of tens of thousands of people might have been exaggerated by the guards in their panic, but it must have been at least several thousand people.

At that moment, everyone naturally didn't care about why an outsider like Li Siyuan was giving orders here. They all hurriedly dispersed and led their troops to guard the village wall.

However, Li Siyuan, the man appointed by Du Gong to be in charge of the big camp, did not participate in the battle. Instead, he walked around in the big camp with a gloomy face.

The incident happened suddenly. No matter how cautious he was, he could not have anticipated that Xiao Yan would pull out such a large group of people from nowhere, and their speed and strangeness of reinforcements were completely puzzling.

Isn't that guy afraid that the elite troops stationed in Nanping State by Du Gong will suddenly return and attack him from behind?

However, Li Siyuan immediately realized that he might not be able to hold out any hope for the tens of thousands of elite soldiers mentioned by Du Gong, so he immediately gave up this idea.

Li Siyuan walked back and forth, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly reached out from his bosom and took out an iron token engraved with the three characters "bad people". Then he held the token high, stood in the empty hall and said bluntly: "The commander-in-chief once told me in Taiyuan that if the situation requires, I can use this to summon Kuijia to see him..."

"Go ahead."

A figure appeared from nowhere and jumped down from the beam.

Li Siyuan ignored him and said with a gloomy face: "Chi Li will come out of retreat in the next two days, but the situation is urgent and the possibility of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave being lost is very high. I think we must plan ahead!"

Kui Jia crossed his arms over his chest, his face hidden behind the visor showing no expression, he just said indifferently: "The secret technique is not yet complete, and taking action at this time is different from Marshal Yu's plan."

"Can't wait any longer!"

Li Siyuan said anxiously: "Once Xiao Yan breaks into the camp, everything will be over! This guy has too many tricks up his sleeve. He was like that in Hebei. Even Li Cunxu fell into his hands. If we wait any longer, we won't be able to predict how the situation will turn out!"

Kuijia pondered for a moment, and seemed to agree with Li Siyuan's words, but in the end he just shook his head: "Wait another half day, if it doesn't work, there's no harm in taking action later."

Li Siyuan was angry, but he was not sure what position this Kuijia held in Yuan Tiangang's eyes, so he just nodded with a sullen face: "Then it's up to you."

Finally, he suddenly added: "Remember, don't let Xiao Yan know that I have been to the Ten Thousand Poison Cave!"

Kuijia looked at him, said nothing, and nodded.

In this den of poisons, not many people knew Li Siyuan's true identity. Apart from Chi Li, perhaps only the few village leaders knew it. When the others met Li Siyuan, the latter even modified their appearance.

After all, Li Siyuan's appearance in the Ten Thousand Poison Cave this time was a secret. His arrangements in Jin State should have been in Hebei at this time. Moreover, Li Siyuan had no intention of revealing his identity to Xiao Yan too early.

What he meant was that none of the village chiefs who knew his identity would survive.

After this, Li Siyuan recalled the disciples of Tongwenguan who had accompanied him, and sent them to keep inquiring about the war situation. At the same time, he himself was anxiously waiting in the big camp, which was like adding fuel to the fire, and seemed to be impatient.

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The Gu-control field.

The Poison Lord sat alone in the middle of the high platform, holding an ancient container that could only be held with a ring of hands.

At the top of the container, a strange purple light began to flicker.

On all sides, nearly a hundred poison masters in black robes sat around, guarding the Poison Master in the middle. They all made hand gestures and muttered obscure words. From time to time, someone would suddenly collapse, and his body looked like a dried corpse under his black robe.

Poison Lord ignored all this until a low roar seemed to come from the container in his hand.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and his white pupils opened.

"You all may present your offerings——"

With just one word, all the Gu Masters around him cut their fingertips without hesitation, and then immediately drew intricate patterns on their chests. These blood-stained patterns began to flicker the moment they were drawn.

The finished Gu Master turned into a mummy in just an instant and collapsed.

"Please, King of Wizards, remember our merits..."

Poison Master chuckled, as if he had turned a deaf ear to nothing, and just stared at the top of the container in his hand, as if he was expecting something and afraid of something.

But overall, the anticipation is greater than the fear.

"boom……"

The last Gu Master collapsed to the ground.

The strange purple light that was flickering on the top of the container suddenly returned to calm, and the container that was originally shaking continuously also stopped quietly.

The Poison King stopped breathing and stared at the container.

"what……"

A laugh rang out.

Poison Lord frowned and looked towards the entrance of the Gu Control Field.

A figure in Confucian robes walked in slowly, gently waving a folding fan with the word "Wen" on it in his hand, and gently stroking his mustache, with a smile on his face.

"Witch King, I have been waiting for a long time."

Behind Li Siyuan, Kuijia, holding a Tang sword, walked out indifferently.

Around the Gu Control Field, Tiankui and his men jumped out, with the unsheathed Tang swords in their hands dripping with blood, and it was obvious that they had chopped all the Gu Masters who were guarding the formation outside to pieces.

Poison Lord chuckled, lowered his head, looked at the container, and chanted a spell.

However, in the distance, a blue light suddenly flashed.

"Li Siyuan is not talented, on behalf of the Marshal——"

"Give the Witch King a ride!"

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When the smoke cleared, the entire Poison Cave was filled with flames and the sound of loud wailing was endless. The corpses on the ground were already dead, with their blood coagulated and no life at all.

Xiao Yan slowly stepped into the Gu Control Field, ignoring the nearly one hundred mummies on all sides, walked up to the high platform where a fierce battle had obviously taken place, and stood with his hands behind his back.

In front of him, a hunched figure with a broken Tang sword stuck in his chest was leaning against a broken stone pillar, already dead.

But this person's head was still held high, with his white pupils looking at the sky, as if before he died, he still had an obsession that was unwilling to let go.

As for what Xiao Yan wanted to find, it had naturally disappeared.

Xiao Yan had an expressionless face. He glanced at him, turned around, looked to the north with his hands behind his back, and slowly exhaled.

"You lost, and I didn't win."

"It seems that each has its own advantages."

(End of this chapter)