Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 33 The Secret of the Millennium (2)
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In order to avoid being found by the angry corpse dancers behind them, the three of them walked towards the west of the forest for a while, and finally stopped to rest deep in the dense forest.Xue Huaiqing took the corpse servant to find food, and Xu Mizi took this opportunity to continue telling An Xingmian about the past.

An Xingmian noticed that when Xue Huaiqing left, Xu Mizi felt a little relieved.It seems that Xue Huaiqing will still remind Xu Mizi of the past with Jiang Qinyin and touch his heart.It seems that this ruthless corpse dancer is still very affectionate deep in his heart, An Xingmian thought, but unfortunately, after this relationship is missed, it will never come back.

"You guessed right, I really don't want to see her, because it reminds me of the sound of the piano," Xu Mizi sat on a clean tree stump cleared by the corpse servant, looking really like an ordinary scholar, "recalls The past is not a very beautiful thing, because the things that make you happy can always be remembered clearly without recalling, but the things that make you sad need to be hidden as hard as possible."

An Xingmian nodded in sympathy, but didn't know what to say. Xumizi smiled: "Boy, you don't need to think of words to try to comfort me. Xumizi doesn't need to seek comfort from others. But you do If you are brave enough, when you are in a desperate situation, you can still think of a sneak attack on me to turn things around, which suits my appetite. So even if Feng Qiuke doesn't intervene, maybe I will let you go when I am in a good mood."

"So you've all seen it..." An Xingmian sighed, "It seems that I have to go a long way to cultivate to your level."

"If you still insist on the cultivation of the Nagato monk, it will be impossible. That kind of pedantic meditation seems to keep the purity of the spiritual power on the surface, but at the same time it will also limit its explosion... Forget it, don't say it That's it, let's get down to business," Xumizi waved his hand, "In the winter of 23 years ago, I did meet a group of long-door monks in Beimang Mountain, and finally killed them. In fact, my goal is not with them, but theirs. The purpose is not mine. We were supposed to be just passers-by, and we would not leave any memory of each other. However, it was probably destined, and our destinies finally intersected..."

23 years ago, the winter of Shengde's 20th year.Xumizi took 33 corpse servants he had carefully selected and walked into Kuyun Peak at the northern foot of Beimang Mountain.Here, a duel of life and death awaits him.

That was his old opponent for many years, Lu Ran Qingtian, a very rare Corpse Dancer of the Yu Clan. With the unique spiritual power of the Feather Clan, he developed a superb corpse dance technique. number two.But after he was killed by Xu Mizi, Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao took the position of number two.

Of course, that's another story.When this winter of the 20th year of Shengde came, Lu Ran Qingtian was still alive, and had already sent a letter of war to Xu Mizi in the autumn, inviting him to fight in Beimang Mountain.

"You still have many years to live, but I am already old and not far from death," Lu Ran Qingtian wrote very directly in his letter, "If you don't seize the time to fight, you will never have another chance in the future. Although there are many corpse dancers, I don't pay attention to them, you are the only exception. I hope you can fulfill the last wish of me, an elderly man."

Xu Mizi has always looked down on Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao, thinking that they are just two wastes who are not worthy of carrying his shoes, but he is quite sure about Lu Ran Qingtian.He was also lonely because he had no opponent, but after receiving this letter, he agreed without hesitation, and began to prepare the corpse servant for combat. Twenty-three years ago, his skill was not as pure as it is now, and he hadn't practiced enough to control a large number of walking corpses through mental transfer. Considering Lu Ran's overwhelming strength, instead of carrying fifty or sixty corpses It's better to bring the number of servants that can best display the power of the individual.So in the end, he only picked 23.

He entered Beimang Mountain in mid-October and reached Kuyun Peak in early November.It is indeed an extremely precipitous place, and it is difficult for ordinary people to reach it, but of course it is not difficult for the great Sumeru.However, when Xu Mizi finally came to Kuyun Peak, he realized that there was no Lu Ran Qingtian waiting for him at all, only a landslide was waiting for him.

It turned out that all this was a conspiracy arranged by several of his enemies.Xu Mizi acted recklessly all his life, and when he saw a living person with good quality, he would kill him at all costs and take him as a corpse servant, so he made many enemies.In the spring of that year, Xu Mizi killed a young Yuren in Lanzhou, but he did not expect that this young man turned out to be the second son of the lord of Kadiku, a large city of the Yu clan in Lanzhou.

The lord was furious and ordered his men to avenge his son at all costs.After careful investigation, they finally found out the true identity of Sumeru.But dealing with such a tricky figure can be quite mind-blowing.In the end, the lord found a person who could help through the relationship of crutches and crutches - the apprentice of corpse dancer Lu Ranqingtian.The apprentice had been saved by the lord, and this was his chance to repay his favor.

This master apprentice helped the Lord concoct the letter of challenge so realistic that anyone who read it would believe it, lured Xu Mizi to Kuyun Peak, and then created a landslide.Countless mountains, rocks, and sand poured down, sweeping towards Xu Mizi and his 33 corpse servants overwhelmingly.Fortunately, Xu Mizi's reaction was fast enough. At the moment of life and death, he used the corpse dance technique to summon one of his most powerful corpse servants to lift him up and throw him out viciously. Finally, he escaped the catastrophe .But he survived, but his corpse servants were all buried under the rocks and destroyed.

When Xumizi was shouting about his bad luck, he noticed that after the landslide calmed down, someone came to the scene to search.He realized the trickiness of it, approached quietly to eavesdrop on the searcher's conversation, and quickly sorted out the relationship.Strangely, he didn't feel angry, on the contrary, he felt very relieved, because finally someone was able to deceive him and almost killed him.For a lonely master, such a challenge and stimulation is exactly what he is after.So he also quickly made up his mind. In order to be worthy of the painstaking efforts of this group of people, he must make sure that none of them can walk out of Beiman Mountain alive—but they can go out as corpse servants.

Xu Mizi set this goal for himself, but it was quite difficult to implement it, because he didn't even have half of the ready-made corpse servants at hand, and they were all buried by the landslide, with no bones left.And these searchers don't seem to be weak, and it's not easy to deal with them without corpse servants.

But Xu Mizi would not give up so lightly.He wandered in the mountains, hoping to find a small village and find some living people.It may take 33 well-trained corpse servants to fight Lu Ran Qingtian, but to deal with these people, only about twenty available corpses are enough.

Unfortunately, this is Kuyun Peak, a mountain that is difficult for travelers to climb.Xu Mizi searched for a day, but he didn't find any mountain villages at all.According to his estimation, those searchers would spend at most two or three days looking for his body, and then they would give up and leave here.

Unreconciled Xu Mizi continued to search in vain.Although this weirdo is vicious and vicious, he always attaches great importance to the promises he makes or the oaths he makes.Since he had made up his mind to deal with those guys who dared to attack him, he had to do it no matter what.He became ruthless. If he couldn't find a village with living people, he would put down his status as a master and attack those people one by one. Every time he killed a person, it was equivalent to having an extra walking corpse that could be used manipulation.As for whether doing so would damage the reputation of the world's number one corpse dancer, he had no interest in thinking about it at all.

But he hasn't been pushed down this discreditable path.A god-given opportunity appeared in front of him at this time - he unexpectedly saw a large group of people on the mountain road, there were as many as thirty people! (This was also the beginning of his mistake. If at that time, he could count the number of people carefully instead of estimating by "almost", he would not have missed Li Han who later became a homeless man.)
At that moment, Sumizi, who had always despised ghosts and gods, almost thought that God had opened his eyes, but he quickly calmed down and calmly followed behind the group of people, carefully observing their dress and behavior.He was surprised to find that these people were all long monks with thick hemp belts around their waists.He was very surprised, what did the long-door monks come to such a deserted place, could it be collective penance?
So he eavesdropped for the second time in a day.Corpse dancers have always had the ability to hide their whereabouts, and Xu Mizi is even better at it. As a person who does whatever it takes to achieve his goals, he never feels that there is anything wrong with such sneaky behavior.He followed the monks to the cave where they stayed temporarily, hid behind a protruding rock, and heard all their conversations.The long-door monks were unprepared, because they never imagined that someone would follow them in such a remote mountain; and Xu Mizi also did not expect that this time the eavesdropping made him hear a huge secret that had been hidden for thousands of years. secret.

From the conversations of the long-door monks, he knew that these long-door monks all came from the same branch called Tianzangzong. This branch began to build its own Longyuan Pavilion thousands of years ago.

"According to the conversation I heard, this tribe was originally established to preserve as much knowledge as possible from all ages." 23 years later, Xu Mizi sat in the illusion forest and told An Xingmian about the past, " They are keenly aware that every war and every change of dynasty may bring a catastrophic blow to the books and historical records at that time. Many books may be lost, and many histories may be distorted and smeared , so that people in future generations will not be able to restore the truth of the times. So they will use all methods to collect all the books and materials in each era, and at the same time send people to travel around the world, choose various hidden places, and dig deep holes. Bury the books they collected in it. After finishing almost everything, the cave will be sealed. If some fish that slip through the net can be found in the future, there will be a special place to store them. The sealed cave will never be seen again. Open."

"Not all members of Tianzangzong know this secret. On the surface, Tianzangzong is just an ordinary Nagato sect, and they will communicate with other sects, discussing and debating Nagato scriptures with each other. But within it, there has always been a core organization called the "Secret Collection Group". Only those who enter this organization can share the secrets about the Book Collection Cave and make their own efforts. This time they came to Kuyun Feng, I just hope to find a sufficiently secluded place here, and start digging a library cave belonging to this era-it will probably take decades or even hundreds of years of work."

"It's no wonder that the people of Tianzangzong are required to spend a lot of time traveling around Kyushu every year," An Xingmian suddenly realized, "It turns out that they use this to cover up the purpose of the secret collection team to search for suitable book collection locations. However, their secrecy work It’s really well done, no one else in Nagato knows their truth.”

"It's a pity that I heard the truth," Xumizi smiled evilly, "and I also roughly heard them mention the location of some book caves. There are more than 30 caves in different eras, although there are not many caves. Not too specific, but enough to intimidate them."

"Coercion them? You really do everything you can..." An Xingmian sighed, feeling both respect and fear for this old monster in his heart.

The long-door monks were talking, Xumizi retreated quietly, thinking about how to get rid of these long-door monks.Dealing with them may not be more convenient than dealing with those searchers, but after all, the long door monks are not vigilant against him at this time, and they are gathered together, which is more convenient to use various tricks.

At this moment, with sharp eyes, he saw a figure on a mountain road in the distance. It seemed that he was dressed as a medicine farmer who collected herbs, and he probably came here because he got lost.Seeing this person appear, Xu Mizi suddenly had a new idea.He didn't need to go out of his way to kill these monks—he wanted to force them to commit suicide.

Xu Mizi quickly stopped the Yao Nong, threatened and lured him, and explained to Yao Nong what he needed to do.Then he watched Yao Nong go all the way, so far that even he himself could hardly catch up, then he turned around and strode into the cave.He didn't know that during this period of time, Li Han left the cave, maybe to find food, maybe to find water, no one can tell now.But what is certain is that Li Han could only leave the cave out of Sumeru's sight during that period of time, and this precious survivor just stayed like that, providing An Xingmian with key clues 23 years later.

The Nagato monks were a little surprised to see a stranger walking in, and Xumizi’s appearance and clothes did not look like a lost mountain man, but no matter what his status was, it was the nature of the Nagato monk to be kind to others. A Nagato monk Immediately began to invite him to sit down and warm up by the fire, and eat something, but Xu Mizi's straightforward opening remarks shocked everyone at once.

"You guys, kill yourself quickly." Xu Mizi said clearly.

The Nagato monks looked at each other, probably guessing whether this is a lunatic practicing kungfu, and the last Nagato monk asked, "Excuse me, who are you? Why are you here to joke with us?"

What the lunatic said next was like a bolt from the blue: "Are you kidding me? I never joke. If you don't commit suicide, I will reveal everything about your Tianzangzong book cave. What consequences will there be? I don't need to remind you, do I?"

The long door monks were stunned.Although they are knowledgeable and wise, they seldom have disputes with others in their lives. When they encounter such a ruthless character like Xu Mizi, they are a little at a loss.After a long time, the leading Nagato monk spoke in a trembling voice: "Sir, what enmity does our Tianzangzong have with you? Why are you so vicious?"

"Hey, you Nagato and I have never had any grievances, and the name of Tianzangzong has just been heard from you," Xu Mizi grinned, "It's just a coincidence that I need some corpses right now." , and the only living people you can find nearby are you, so consider yourself unlucky."

The leading Nagato monk was stunned again: "Need some corpses? Could it be... are you a corpse dancer?"

Xu Mizi nodded: "Good knowledge. I just need some corpses for me to drive, and you people are just right."

Another long door monk suddenly interjected, "When I see a suitable living person, I want to kill him and turn him into a walking corpse. Could it be that you are the rumored Sumeru who kills without batting an eye?"

Xu Mizi was a little proud: "That's right, I didn't expect you to have heard my name. If that's the case, you should know who I am. Don't waste your time begging me for mercy. Hurry up and kill yourself."

The head monk shook his head: "I'm sorry, Mr. Sumiko, we can't agree to your request. Moreover, in order to prevent the secret of Tianzangzong from being leaked out, we may have to kill you instead. I'm very sorry. Killing never It's not Nagato's purpose, but it involves important secrets, I'm sorry."

The monk Changmen was really polite when he spoke, saying sorry and sorry, and the murder declaration was also gentle and soft.Xu Mizi smiled again: "It's possible to kill me, but I'm afraid it's not so easy to kill me. Come with me."

(End of this chapter)