Shennong Sequence

Chapter 141 Assassination, Big and Small Ruyi Pills, Sea in the Sky: West Cloud Sea

After Zhao Yun finished all these things, he found that it was already late.

"Alas! I can't learn that rune tonight again."

"But I can't just delay my progress when something happens. And I can't put all my study time into the night!"

"After meeting King You, receiving the imperial edict, and receiving many rewards, I need to change my training plan and make full use of every day."

Zhao Yun realized that the time he spent on practicing was somewhat unreasonable, so he wanted to make some changes.

After thinking for a while and coming up with a plan in mind, I went straight to bed.

The next morning, after Zhao Yun woke up early, he first relearned the true intentions of the Taotie Technique and the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning Heart Technique.

In this way, although some of the mental energy recovered from a night's rest last night was consumed again, the remaining mental energy was enough to support normal daily activities.

And as the process of not using the brain continues, mental strength will slowly recover.

And by the time I learn the other three sets of techniques at night, my mental strength will be able to keep up!
In the middle of the morning, a soldier came to inform Zhao Yun that two maids who were picked up from the city wanted to see him.

Zhao Yun first went to meet up with Master Sun, then came to the small playground that had been prepared and looked at the two maids who had been brought over from Yanshan City.

Then, the two maids continued teaching from where Zhao Yun and Sun Zhengxuan had left off yesterday.

By mid-afternoon, the etiquette course was complete.

However, the two maids still need to review it again with the master and apprentice to avoid any mistakes or omissions.

And because it is close contact instruction, some close contact with body positions and other postures is inevitable.

A maid named Rong Mama was standing behind Zhao Yun, instructing him on how to walk.

Suddenly, Zhao Yun felt a terrifying feeling rushing straight into his brain from behind.

In an instant, Zhao Yun fell to the ground, and at the same time patted the special treasure tied around his waist: the wolfskin belt. The whole person turned into a werewolf, increasing some defense.

He then took out a defensive thick earth talisman from the door key space, stuck it on his body, and it quickly condensed into armor!

When Zhao Yun finished all these things in an instant, Sun Zhengxuan on the side also discovered that the attacker was jumping out of Rong Mama's belly.

A short knife flashing with faint purple light was flying towards the heart of Zhao Yun who was lying on the ground!

In a hurry, Zhao Yun pushed the earth's energy to erupt and moved himself in the other direction where the dagger was coming from.

At the same time, black evil wind gushed out of his mouth, trying to block the flight trajectory of the dagger.

There was also the method of using an iron plow to split the mountain. In an instant, a huge iron plow was condensed and it directly attacked the short knife that had slightly changed its trajectory in the black evil wind.

However, before Zhao Yun could condense the iron plow to block the short sword.

Zhao Yun found himself in a world of green vines.

In an instant, the vines swayed in the wind and knocked the poisoned dagger out!
Zhao Yun was sheltered in the cage formed by huge vines.

However, the outside world was completely blocked by the vines. Zhao Yun was not in a hurry to remove the vines and observe the situation outside.

Instead, he stood quietly among the vines, holding his breath and concentrating, mobilizing his spiritual sense, hearing, mental power, etc. to listen to and perceive all traces, sounds and movements around him, to judge his own safety situation.

After a while, Zhao Yun felt the ground around him shake suddenly with a "bang".

The green vines that originally covered his body became dry and turned into withered and rotten things that hung on the ground.

At this time, without any obstruction, Zhao Yun saw that Rong Mama, whose belly was ripped open, was completely dead.

The assassin who came to kill him had his upper body punched into the ground by Commander Wang who came quickly, and turned into bloody mud.

When Zhao Yun looked around again, he found that the surroundings were covered by a khaki protective shield.

Obviously, the formation located in the ground of the guard post was activated!

Zhao Yun came to his senses and walked to Master Sun's side.

Everyone looked at the only woman in the yard, Nanny Su, who was responsible for teaching etiquette.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Nanny Su was so anxious that she waved her hands back and forth, saying anxiously:

"This matter has nothing to do with me. I am not involved. I am not involved..."

Commander Wang didn't care about Nanny Su's excuses.

"Haha, whether you participated or not, this matter is not up to you!
"Yesterday, the Northern Barbarians' royal court issued a hunting order for Zhao Yun in the Misty Rain Tower, where all the nations are rampant.

"When I went to the post house to pick you up this morning, the guards of the palace confirmed that there was nothing wrong with you... At the same time, you two have not left the post house until this afternoon. Obviously, something went wrong during the period before we picked you up this morning!

"Captain Wu, go down and check who picked up these two maids today, and also check if there was any problem along the way.
"Also, this matter requires good communication with the county government and the royal palace, so that we can supervise this matter together!"

When Commander Wang made the arrangements, he laughed angrily: "Our great hero can't live in peace in the garrison, and is repeatedly attacked by others. This is really a slap in my face!"

"Yes, I will go and supervise it right away." Captain Wu replied. Commander Wang looked at Sun Zhengxuan and said, "Sun Sinong, you should accompany Zhao Yun to calm down first. Also, Zhao Yun, you should stay at your master's place for tonight, and don't go back to your courtyard for the time being."

"Okay." Zhao Yun replied.

Zhao Yun knew in his heart that if he moved to a new place, it would be better to avoid someone breaking into the guard post at night and going directly to the original courtyard, which would be bad.

Therefore, Zhao Yun had no objection to moving to another place.

After all, the discussions at this moment were all planned for his life.

Then, several coroners who were good at detecting various detailed traces came over.

"Miao, the coroner, you are best at analyzing various traces on the corpse. Come and take a look at this person's background!" Commander Wang politely invited the man to do his work.

Coroner Miao and several of his subordinates first dug out the bloody skull bones from the pit one by one, and then pieced them together bit by bit.

Zhao Yun did not leave, but moved aside and watched several people lay the assassin's body flat, untie the clothes on the body, check the characteristic organs on the body, etc.

As soon as you see a special organ, you can tell that this is a male assassin.

Then, Doctor Miao carefully examined the assassin's clothes and body, and said:
“The assassin’s clothes have no markings, but the material used for his clothes is the mist cloud brocade fabric woven from the mist silk spun by the mist silkworms raised in the thick fog of the sky in Tianyun Country.

"In addition, the hair on the assassin's body is white, completely different from the fine, crystal-clear black hair on normal people. It feels a bit like white hair.

"This is a unique characteristic of the humans in the area of ​​Tianyun Country near the West Cloud Sea!
"Both of them point to Tianyun Country, so we can be sure that this assassin is from Tianyun Country's Xiyunhai."

Afterwards, Coroner Miao dissected the assassin's body and cut open his intestines and stomach.

Zhao Yun, standing aside, could also see a light purple liquid and strange little particles similar to white foam in the stomach sac.

Doctor Miao picked up a little gastric juice with his hand and smelled it carefully.

He immediately took out a lot of things from his space equipment and analyzed the components of the gastric juice.

Afterwards, Doctor Miao let go of the purple gastric juice and identified the other food residues and white-like substances stored in the stomach and intestines.

After all the examinations were completed, Miao stood up and continued to speak:

"My lord, I found traces of Ruyi Pills in the assassin's stomach. This pill is a common pill used by the Miao people in the south to feed poisonous insects. Its purpose is to allow the small poisonous insects to grow larger in an instant to attack.

"Of course, I have tested the ingredients of the Ruyi Pill that the assassin ate. It was specially made and modified! It is quite different from the Ruyi Pills that those poisonous insects eat!

"Obviously there is a big organization behind this person, who was able to transform the size-changing Ruyi Pill into a state that humans can swallow! Then this person was able to successfully hide in the stomach of Rong Mama without being discovered by others.

“However, even though the pills eaten by the consumable poisonous insects have been modified, they still have some sequelae, which can easily cause the human body to evolve in a narrow direction.

"And the more you eat, the smaller your body will become, until you end up like a dwarf!"

Zhao Yun was originally very interested in the Ruyi Pill that Miao the coroner mentioned, which could make the human body grow or shrink directly!
This kind of peculiar thing is always kept on hand, as you never know when it might come in handy!

However, Miao the coroner also talked about the side effects of the elixir. If you take too much of it, it can easily make you shorter and eventually turn you into a dwarf.

At this point, Zhao Yun gave up the idea of ​​getting some Ruyi Pills.

However, becoming a dwarf is, after all, the state that results from eating too many Ruyi pills!
And if you encounter a big crisis, taking a pill of Ruyi Dan, even if your health really becomes a little lower afterwards, but if it can save your life, it is still a very cost-effective thing!
While Zhao Yun was thinking about this, Miao the coroner continued:

“In addition, I also found some stones between the assassin’s intestines.

“After testing, it was found that these stones were a material called rock cake.

"The main feature of this kind of rock cake is that it is made of wheat flour and a kind of porous and soft white fairy stone that is unique to the Baixian Mountain in Putuozhou in the Western Regions.

"Eating this kind of rock cake can help with digestion, reduce gastrointestinal damage, and prevent people from getting sick from drinking bitter water or other unclean water in deserts and grasslands.

"So this rock cake is sold quite widely in the Western Regions! There are even some caravans in the Western Regions who often buy some to prevent themselves from drinking dirty water during their journey.

“Since this person recently ate this kind of unique rock cake, it means that he must have drunk some unclean water, which forced him to eat some rock cakes.

"There is another problem. The distance between our Beiliang Bianzhou and the Western Regions is very far... These rock cakes can only reach us because they are carried by caravans that travel the wild all year round!"

"Therefore, I suspect that this assassin may have followed the caravan along the route of Yanmen Pass, Yumen Pass, Beiliang's first pass Guihong City, Canglan Grassland, Zhuori Desert, Western Corridor, Putuozhou, Baixian Mountain, the Sea in the Sky: Xiyun Sea, and Tianyun Kingdom..."

Coroner Miao narrated some of the details he had discovered and some of his guesses.

Commander Wang muttered, "I came from the Xiyun Sea of ​​Tianyun Country. I have tasted the specialties of the Western Regions, and I have tasted the large and small Ruyi Pills after the reform of Southern Xinjiang...

“Haha, if that’s the case, then this assassin must be a member of a caravan that passed through the Western Region Corridor, then turned along the Zhuori Desert and Canglan Grassland, and finally entered our Beiliang Border Continent from Guihong City, and then tried to enter the heart of our Great Zhou from Yanmen Pass!
"And the only city outside Yanmen Pass is our Yanshan County!
"Also, no caravan markets are allowed to appear around Yanmen Pass. Therefore, the last stop of various caravans before entering Yanmen Pass will be in the horse market in Yanshan County. They will obtain the pass through the official order in the horse market, and then they can enter and exit Yanmen Pass at noon every day!
"However, these past few days, Zhang Zhou has issued an order that all cities are under martial law, and the flow of all kinds of outsiders is strictly prohibited! Therefore, these foreign caravans are all trapped in one city after another, and cannot escape!
"Also, Yanmen Pass also received orders from the Ministry of War to close the entire pass.

"So the caravans from all over Beiliang Bianzhou, as well as the envoys from other countries, all gathered in the horse market west of Yanshan City..."

When Commander Wang was saying this information, Zhao Yun felt a strong murderous intent pouring out from Commander Wang!

Of course, this killing intent was not directed at Zhao Yun, so...

After Zhao Yun went over this information in his mind, he discovered that the wealth accumulated in the horse market seemed to be much more than the wealth seized from the homes of those families a few days ago!

(End of this chapter)